Places Ivan66 Wants to Go

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

This abandoned radar station from the Cold War era now only broadcasts a seriously ominous air of isolation.

One of the indelible moments of the American Revolution took place at this location.

One of two lighted lanterns hung in the church belfry on the eve of the Revolutionary War to warn that the British were on their way.

Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

American revolutionaries and British soldiers alike are buried here in the fourth-ever cemetery in Boston.

This rare symbol of Eastern philosophy in the West has been created over years of painstaking construction by the local community.

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

This mysterious artificial cave has long puzzled New Englanders.

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

A more than 260-year-old crypt built on Boston's oldest English burial ground.

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

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

Hut with supplies for shipwreck survivors.

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

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

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

An 80-year-old house built out of newspapers.

An easy-to-miss garden in Boston's North End honors the mother of JFK and others who lost children in WWII.

Shelves covered in dozens of coffee bean varieties fill this North End institution.

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

This massive tea kettle was once a promotional stunt for the Oriental Teashop.

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

The first bell ever cast in Boston was cast by Paul Revere...and sounded terrible.