Places jwrivera Wants to Go

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

Celebrating the greatest pugilists the world has ever known.

The last remaining 19th-century tenement from Boston's old West End neighborhood.

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

This museum preserves the heyday of Puerto Rican coffee.

The world's brightest bioluminescent bay.

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

Plans for this peninsula included houses, the United Nations Headquarters, and a nuclear power plant. When none of them worked out, it became an expansive park.

Solar powered Spectacle Island features all-green facilities.

Around 160 years ago, this spot marked the location of a wharf along the shores of the Charles River.

This historic Boston building has gone from personal estate to porn theater and back again.

Once a kitschy symbol for a gift shop, this 38-foot seahorse is now a staple roadside attraction.

The Atlantis of Cape Cod reemerges during the lowest of tides.

This Cape Cod museum exhibits what it claims is the only authenticated pirate treasure in the world.

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

This small shop walked so America could run on Dunkin'.

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

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

Trash escaped from a landfill to fill beaches with all kinds of treasure.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

Like stepping into a spooky fairy-tale, this shop carries the dark ideas of artists and other makers.

A New England ghost town features a trail of boulders etched with intriguing life lessons.

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

Friction between grains of sand cause a curious "singing" sound.