Places greasekitten Wants to Go

On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.

This plaque is dedicated to one-half of the Magliozzi brothers and their hit radio show, 'Car Talk.'

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

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

A tiny monument to the classic American candy.

Whimsical cookie-themed plaques mark the birthplace of the Fig Newton.

One man's psychedelic fence is painted with his cacophonous folk art musings on the world.

No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.

The strikingly modern structure stands out among the brick buildings speckling the Harvard Business School's campus.

At the supposed instruction of Ben Franklin and Socrates, a Spiritualist believer intended to birth a mechanical messiah here.

This unassuming stone commemorates a condiment factory gone up in smoke.

Massachusetts memorial to murder victim Elizabeth Short near the spot where she was born.

A museum dedicated exclusively to the lore and history of ouija boards.

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

Grave of the man allegedly responsible for a series of infamous murders in Boston in the 1960s.

The oldest living cultivated fruit tree in North America.

A monument in a town outside of Boston celebrates the visits of Edgar Allan Poe.

Memorial of the Salem witchcraft hysteria in the town of Danvers, where it all began.

Supposed Massachusetts Grave of a pre-Columbus Knight Templar.

A defunct all-girls college which may be the resting place of H.P. Lovecraft's real-life Necronomicon.

Every December the Wannalancit Mills lights a Christmas Tree over the old mill's smokestack.

The birth home of one of cinema's legendary actresses.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.