Places hopemch Wants to Go

35,000 grape hyacinths flow like water down a garden hill.

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

The Mysterious Witch Bonney, a haunted statue in an old industrial city.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

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

Over 50 whirling pools left behind from the glacial age.

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

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

A New England ghost town features a trail of boulders etched with intriguing life lessons.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

This former Masonic hall has been turned into an art project that uses even more metaphysical iconography.

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

The walkable ruins of an 19th century hotel, destroyed in a horse cremation gone wrong.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

One of the most scenic falls in Massachusetts has a history of death and grim legend.

Friction between grains of sand cause a curious "singing" sound.

One of the now-less-hidden floral gems of the "Emerald Necklace."

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.