Places mrshouligan Wants to Go

The sea urchin sculpture is an unusual commemoration of a New England town's seafaring history.

The final resting place of a wealthy landowner who helped create the largest public park in Western Massachusetts.

A three-piece musical sculpture installed between the subway tracks at Kendall Station near MIT.

A monument park dedicated to the influential Beat Generation author and poet, Jack Kerouac.

Second largest wastewater treatment plant in the country.

A man in a plane delivers Christmas packages to lighthouses.

A red brick monolith is all that remains of New England’s first commercial brickyard.

Site of an oft forgotten and revolutionary battle.

The largest collection of historic military firearms in the United States.

The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.

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.

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

One of the oldest baseball fields in continuous use has been hosting games since 1878.

The oldest platform carousel built in the United States continues to delight children in Martha’s Vineyard.

A grave surprise in the downtown area of New England's second-largest city.

This abandoned neighborhood is now a park filled with beautiful trees, wildflowers, and hints of its past.

Funded entirely by volunteers and donors this military memorial features a tank with a comedy line on its barrel.

This piece of peacetime naval wreckage memorializes the tragic sinking of the USS Maine--an event which sparked the Spanish-American war.

The scarce remains of a sunken ship peek out from the sand on East Beach.

Built to bless whalers before their voyages, this Massachusetts church now features a ship-shaped pulpit.

A Harvard-area eatery preserves the uncovered tiles of its century-old predecessor.

The statue of John Harvard isn't actually John Harvard—or even, technically, the founder of the school.

The largest glacial erratic boulder on Cape Cod.

These impressively detailed battle scenes depict the violence and tragedy of war in miniature.