Places KJMcLean Wants to Go

Canada's largest dinosaur skeleton was hidden away in storage for more than 40 years.

This knick-knack-covered house (complete with a matching van) is a charming oddity in the middle of a modest downtown neighborhood.

The first post office in Toronto still operates today, complete with quill pens and ink for writing letters.

A botanically themed auditorium blooms within the world’s last operating double-decker theater.

After decades of damage, this feat of timekeeping and automaton art has been given a new lease on life.

Lyon's "Wall of the Silk Weavers" is one of the largest murals in Europe.

A tiled, multi-level garden of survival in Lyon.

Explore the 500-year history of silk-making in Lyon at this museum, workshop, and boutique.

This abandoned church in central Lyon is missing its front stairs.

This sculpture is dedicated to a local therapy dog who later became the official mascot of the 126th Boston Marathon.

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

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

A stone marker dedicated to the “Father of American Education.”

The largest living museum in the Northeast recreates life from the Early Republic period complete with costumed historians and reenactors.

Ghostly specters are said to haunt this secluded cave where a famed Wampanoag leader spent the final days of his life.

This historic home and museum celebrates the life story of the female founder of the American Red Cross.

This solitary stone engraved with a poem from 1852 has a mysterious and tragic past.

Once an integral part of Native American life, very few of these communal New England stones have survived to the present day.

The oldest brick saltbox house in America.

This stone in Lexington honors a formerly enslaved man who fought during the American Revolution.

Order the extra snappy, steamed hot dogs at this fourth-generation-run New England diner.

The birthplace of the man who patented the cotton gin and pioneered interchangeable parts.

The grave of William Rosenberg, founder of Dunkin Donuts (now Dunkin') with shops coast to coast in the US and 42 countries worldwide.

This sculpture memorializes the town's connection to the famous horror author Edgar Allan Poe.