Places jilliangbradshaw5 Wants to Go

This popular Boston haunt is reminiscent of a time gone by, when slow cafes and sweet-smelling smoke wafting from patios was the norm.

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

The remnants of a Gilded Age elegance preserved in the middle of a stark modern tower.

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

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

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

From bench to vandalism to art, this silly prank seat was funny enough to become permanent.

No one messes with the Massachusetts sacred cod, not this time...

The first bell ever cast in Boston was cast by Paul Revere...and sounded terrible.

An easy-to-miss garden in Boston's North End honors the mother of JFK and others who lost children in WWII.

This giant Boston statue of Mary is standing on a globe to show her power over the universe.

On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.

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

This historic patch of real estate offers a glimpse of colonial Boston.

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

A more than 260-year-old crypt built on Boston's oldest English burial ground.

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

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

Ice cream stand, snack bar, and time capsule of milk conveyance.

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

This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.

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

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.