Places mrshouligan Wants to Go

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

The self-proclaimed world's smallest museum, located next to a Massachusetts sandwich chain.

It's not a typo, now say it five times fast!

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

Run by a eugenics advocate, this aging institution conducted secret radiation experiments sponsored by Quaker Oats.

An alley way dedicated to graffiti and street art is a constantly changing street gallery.

This historic graveyard monument is dedicated to a tragic victim of witch trial hysteria.

Locals purchased this abandoned quarry in order to make sure it continues to be overgrown.

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

The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.

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

"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."

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.

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

Narrowest house in Boston.

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

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

A museum dedicated to the quirky and colorful world created by Springfield's favorite son.

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

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

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

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