Places jocelyngould Wants to Go

The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

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

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

A former copper mine which became a truly unsuccessful prison.

A reliquary of pop culture marvels, including the world's largest (and most terrifying) Jack-in-the-Box.

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

The ancient past meets the retro-future at these dinosaur tracks that are protected by a geodesic dome.

Memorial to one of the most fatal fires in both circus and U.S. history.

The pleasant woodland cemetery that has inspired more than its fair share of wild legends.

As state highpoints go, this spot is one of the lowest, but for years it was also the hardest to climb.

The right to a full beard is honored by the grave of a man who was attacked and jailed due to his facial hair.

Stumps of an Ice Age forest, visible only at low tide.

This funeral home had the honor, if that is the correct word, of hosting the funeral of the famous Sacco and Vanzetti.