Places KJMcLean Wants to Go

On top of Gibbet Hill lie the ruins of a lavish turn-of-the-century estate that never quite came to be.

The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.

The thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.

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

Stay at this storybook estate, featuring Sir Henry Hudson Kitson's masterpiece "Gingerbread House."

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

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

Located just behind a quiet residential neighborhood, this is ground zero for the Salem witchcraft hysteria of 1692.

A museum dedicated to the quirky and colorful world created by Springfield's favorite son.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

This former Masonic hall has been turned into an art project that uses even more metaphysical iconography.

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

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

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.

You can get anything you want at the former site of the restaurant immortalized by Arlo Guthrie.

Try a classic Necco candy bar being resurrected in a small suburban shop.

Visit a sweet shop selling one of the first candies ever made and sold in America.

The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.

This sprawling collection hides many charms.

The once-booming fox ranching industry has left its mark on Prince Edward Island.