Places hopemch Wants to Go

In Gloucester, Massachussets, fishermen celebrate a successful year at sea by charging a lubed pole to capture an Italian flag.

The oldest playground in America.

This sprawling 18th-century cemetery features unique and beautiful gravestones, including one shaped like a tree.

The oldest tavern in Lowell has dedicated fans of its fan.

In order to save this beloved rock, locals blew it up and put it back together piece by piece.

This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.

This donated headstone marks the grave of a pair of elderly women who were mysteriously murdered.

A monument to the Mohawk people stands along an old Native American trade route.

This parking garage was the site of what was - at the time - the largest cash robbery in history.

The haunting history of a little girl lost.

The world's largest piece of copyrighted artwork.

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

A disastrous shipwreck and a tragic love story.

Colorful clay cliffs tower over an unofficial nudist beach on Martha's Vineyard.

This hidden labyrinth offers walkers some brief peace of mind.

The ruins of one of the first railroads in the U.S. lie hidden within a neighborhood cul-de-sac.

This Cape Cod museum exhibits what it claims is the only authenticated pirate treasure in the world.

This stone tower in a small town's graveyard looks as though it would be more at home in a fairy tale.

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

A real plaque marks the spot where a Faulknerian character committed fictional suicide.

A comic book store got the road by its shop officially renamed after Superman's girlfriend.

The nation's second-ever First Lady urged the founding fathers to "remember the ladies."

This headstone marks the grave of an 11-year-old boy killed during clashes in the streets over the boycotting of British goods.

Plymouth's huge yet little-known memorial to the Pilgrims.