Places jameth15 Wants to Go

This memorial honors those who served on Gallops Island Radio Training Station during the second World War.

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

This bridge was the birthplace of a unit of measurement based on a fraternity joke.

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

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

Tragedy on Little Brewster Island memorialized.

The tomb of Increase Mather and his son Cotton, influential colonial ministers obsessed with the occult.

Each August, one of the largest religious (and food) celebrations in the country is held in Boston.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

Narrowest house in Boston.

Stolen goods adorn the organ at Old North Church.

The oldest working bell set in North America, the bells at Old North Church sat silent for their first four years in Massachusetts.

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

The infamous Boston Mob ran rackets from an office here in the 1970s.

A school used as a model for public education across the country.

"Mock all and sundry things, but leave the saints alone."

The location of one of the first private Catholic schools in the country, providing a valuable sanctuary during the tumultuous period when Protestant and Catholic students were at odds.

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

A centuries-old church stands as a testament to Boston's "father of architecture."

This ambitious father and son team reigned supreme over the North End, and witches, for many years.

This funeral home had the honor, if that is the correct word, of hosting the funeral of the famous Sacco and Vanzetti.

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

One woman’s obsession gave birth to this lovely oddity at the Boston Public Library.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.