Places hopemch Wants to Go

An alley way dedicated to graffiti and street art is a constantly changing street gallery.

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

This historic graveyard monument is dedicated to a tragic victim of witch trial hysteria.

An old trolley bridge was converted into a breathtaking garden bursting with colorful flowers.

Stay at this storybook estate, featuring Sir Henry Hudson Kitson's masterpiece "Gingerbread House."

Locals purchased this abandoned quarry in order to make sure it continues to be overgrown.

Ice cream stand, snack bar, and time capsule of milk conveyance.

On top of Gibbet Hill lie the ruins of a lavish turn-of-the-century estate that never quite came to be.

The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

This miniature feudal castle was built on a whim to honor a US Navy pioneer.

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

The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

This tiny, painted door at the base of a tree stump has been a fixture of the Harvard University campus for decades.

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

A cave dug by a man directed by ghosts to find pirate treasure.

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

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

The ruins of a Massachusetts prison farm can still be found crumbling the woods of a state park.

A museum dedicated to the quirky and colorful world created by Springfield's favorite son.

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.