Places hopemch Wants to Go

This headstone-like marker inscribed with three words has been an utter mystery for over a century.

A steampunk wonderland that preserves America's history of industrial innovation.

Sacks of potatoes, made of cast stone, mark where the iconic potato sheds once stood along the river.

An elaborate, hidden model train in the Needham Town Forest.

A careful eye can find hundreds of dinosaur tracks running along the Connecticut River.

The oldest surviving wood-frame building in North America is still in the family.

The pleasant woodland cemetery that has inspired more than its fair share of wild legends.

This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.

Hut with supplies for shipwreck survivors.

The remnants of a Gilded Age elegance preserved in the middle of a stark modern tower.

One man’s hobby is another man’s world of metal wonders.

Historic Hull Street was actually the first street with a proper name in the Boston area.

This tall Massachusetts folly got its name thanks to all of the purple prose its vistas inspired.

This roadside attraction attracts kids with dinosaurs before blindsiding them with geology.

For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.

The homestead of American patriot John Adams.

According to legend, Bob Dylan sneaks in twice a year to eat dinner with Jack.

A mysterious stone embedded at the base of a historic Boston building.

No one messes with the Massachusetts sacred cod, not this time...

A coastal rock outcrop with mysterious inscriptions variously attributed to Native Americans, Portuguese, Phoenicians, Norse, and more.

Overgrown ruins of a turn of the century island fort that sees very few visitors.

Home to the Titanic Historical Society's collection.

This railroad tunnel was once the longest in Massachusetts.

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.