Places JaySky Wants to Go

Palatial mansion estate used in films including "Flowers in the Attic" and "The Witches of Eastwick."

"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."

These whimsical works of art tell the story of the city's past and present.

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

This railroad tunnel was once the longest in Massachusetts.

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.

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

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

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

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

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

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

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

One of the last remaining World War II Victory Gardens in the U.S. is quietly growing across from Fenway Park.

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

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

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

Naturally formed white marble arch housed in an abandoned marble quarry from the 1800s.

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

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

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

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

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.

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