Places kosmostasis Wants to Go

One of the last remaining movie theatres in the country that features a rear-projection system.

This hidden labyrinth offers walkers some brief peace of mind.

This is the house that spite built.

Order savory Levantine baked goods with innovative twists at this takeout-only spot.

This Tuscan lake hides a 13th century town that is still visible when the water recedes.

A disastrous shipwreck and a tragic love story.

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

A luxury hotel constructed out of a former jail.

America’s oldest community theater, this Boston club has been in operation since 1877.

This funeral home had the honor, if that is the correct word, of hosting the funeral of the famous Sacco and Vanzetti.

This popular Boston haunt is reminiscent of a time gone by, when slow cafes and sweet-smelling smoke wafting from patios was the norm.

Silverware in the sidewalk outside a grocery store cements this neighborhood’s Italian culinary history.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

A mysterious stone embedded at the base of a historic Boston building.

The remnants of a Gilded Age elegance preserved in the middle of a stark modern tower.

From bench to vandalism to art, this silly prank seat was funny enough to become permanent.

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

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

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

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.

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

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.