Places katehawes Wants to Go

They squeal, they nosh, they look like predators.

This decrepit abandoned building is made all the more eerie by its dark history.

An inclusive, climate-resilient playground honors the life of a young Boston Marathon bombing victim.

A cultural center dedicated to the preservation of the Yiddish language and culture with over a million volumes.

This pavement line and accompanying statue commemorates the starting point for the world's oldest annual marathon.

A tribute to Samuel Wilson, who may be the original "Uncle Sam."

The first transatlantic wireless communication between the U.S. and Europe took place here in 1903.

Two artist-designed restrooms are part of the collection at the Smith College Museum of Art.

Dozens of bronze sculptures are woven into the landscape along this trail.

The oldest philatelic museum in the United States.

Wander the sprawling living museum on the site of one of a 16th-century community.

A monument marks where a convent was burned by an anti-Catholic mob in 1834.

Taxidermy reptiles and rodents put on quite the show at this local history museum.

America's first public lending library began with a gift from Benjamin Franklin.

Provincetown's night owls flock to this 52-year-old pizza joint.

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.

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

A stone marker commemorating the first time sound was transmitted over wires.

Every December the Wannalancit Mills lights a Christmas Tree over the old mill's smokestack.

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

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

Small island science organization offers public the chance to participate in research.

This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.