Places Edited by GerhardM

More than 5,000 artifacts donated by the people of the city, plus a room entirely devoted to the band U2.

This beautiful site is where the first transatlantic telegraph was sent from.

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

The thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.

American revolutionaries and British soldiers alike are buried here in the fourth-ever cemetery in Boston.

An abandoned faux-pub made famous by a Guinness commercial.

From bench to vandalism to art, this silly prank seat was funny enough to become permanent.

From economic backbone of a community to deadly diving hole, these former stone quarries are now a park for rock climbers and graffiti artists.

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

Funded entirely by volunteers and donors this military memorial features a tank with a comedy line on its barrel.

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

One of America's most historic homes also holds a startling literary legacy.

A time capsule of Floridian history fights to survive on the banks of Chokoloskee Bay.

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.

A disastrous shipwreck and a tragic love story.

Trash escaped from a landfill to fill beaches with all kinds of treasure.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

A plaque memorializes the Boston location of one of the largest nightclub fires in history.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

This memorial honors those who served on Gallops Island Radio Training Station during the second World War.

This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.