Places jw1389 Wants to Go

The aviator lived here from 1924 until she became the first woman to cross the Atlantic by airplane in 1928.

Inside a grand Victorian-era carriage house is the oldest automobile collection in the United States.

Massachusetts memorial to murder victim Elizabeth Short near the spot where she was born.

The preserved historic home of the largest slave-owning family in Massachusetts serves as a memorial and a testament to the history of enslavement and abolition in the state

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

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

This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.

This beautiful architectural gem was the first waste treatment facility in Boston.

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

The headquarters of one of the world’s longest-running humor magazines bears a noticeable resemblance to a head wearing a Prussian helmet.

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

Earliest version of the American flag can be seen atop the hill where it first flew.

This tower commemorates the spot where George Washington hoisted the Grand Union flag.

A 17th-century Japanese bell brought back by U.S. sailors after WWII and later gifted as a symbol of peace.

This plaque commemorates the call between Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas A. Watson.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

Harry Houdini plunged into the Charles River and performed one of his escape acts here in 1908.

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

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

Interactive museum complete with costumed re-enactors and the only known surviving chest from the Boston Tea Party.

American revolutionaries and British soldiers alike are buried here in the fourth-ever cemetery in Boston.

A pair of antique trolleys are on display at one of the oldest subway stations in the United States.

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