Places mrshouligan Wants to Go

A 19th-century smallpox cemetery is being reclaimed by scrub forest and sand dunes.

Marigolds, rosemary, Madonna lilies, and the Virgin’s Bower decorate this Massachusetts sacred garden.

The only certified Trappist brewery outside of Europe hides in the central Massachusetts hills.

The oldest tavern in Lowell has dedicated fans of its fan.

A remnant of the 19th-century dream to discourage people from drinking booze by offering them water.

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

A freighter full of exotic animals ends a harrowing voyage impaled on uncharted rocks in the Boston Harbor.

Every December the Wannalancit Mills lights a Christmas Tree over the old mill's smokestack.

A memorial sculpture to heath hens stands on the spot where the last heath hen, Booming Ben, was last seen.

This exhibit is one of the largest and most well-preserved collections of Jurassic-era trackways in the United States.

Centuries-old hoofprints and wagon tracks reveal themselves after a good winter storm.

The final resting place of a suffragist author.

The site of the tragic isolation of Nipmuc Native Americans left to perish in King Philip's War.

Hill-like structures formed by glaciers and sandy spits of land.

A plaque marking the famous abolitionist's birthplace often overlooked by visitors to the nearby Charles Sumner House.

A pig barn converted into one of the most eclectic residences in Nantucket.

A quaint museum nestled in a former hub of Irish moss harvesting.

The strikingly modern structure stands out among the brick buildings speckling the Harvard Business School's campus.

A museum dedicated to Nantucket's legacy as the "graveyard of the Atlantic."

The monumental steeple on Amherst College's campus has no church attached to it.

The only remaining place where you can play this century-old game for cash.

In Gloucester, Massachussets, fishermen celebrate a successful year at sea by charging a lubed pole to capture an Italian flag.

In order to save this beloved rock, locals blew it up and put it back together piece by piece.

This sprawling 18th-century cemetery features unique and beautiful gravestones, including one shaped like a tree.