Places kayleyrettberg Wants to Go

When Motown musicians came to Nashville in the 1960s they stayed at this historic record-pressing company because hotels wouldn't host them.

This "life-size" depiction of Mickey Mouse as a half-lobster is both whimsical and a bit creepy, standing guard over the Boston waterfront.

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

A unique music museum housed in a historic Boston theater.

Millions of numbers carved in glass represent the tattoos forced upon victims.

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

Located in Faneuil Hall, the headquarters of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts has stood the test of time.

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

The former site of an all-but-forgotten colonial landmark is now remembered by an often overlooked bas relief.

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

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

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

This massive tea kettle was once a promotional stunt for the Oriental Teashop.

One of the last remaining World War II Victory Gardens in the U.S. is quietly growing across from Fenway Park.

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

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

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

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

One of the now-less-hidden floral gems of the "Emerald Necklace."

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.

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

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.