Places kristenwilloughby Wants to Go

Final resting place of a pioneering scurvy researcher.

Site of an oft forgotten and revolutionary battle.

A Harvard-area eatery preserves the uncovered tiles of its century-old predecessor.

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

One of the oldest baseball fields in continuous use has been hosting games since 1878.

Funded entirely by volunteers and donors this military memorial features a tank with a comedy line on its barrel.

A monument to the Mohawk people stands along an old Native American trade route.

A man in a plane delivers Christmas packages to lighthouses.

Centuries-old hoofprints and wagon tracks reveal themselves after a good winter storm.

This memorial honors those who served on Gallops Island Radio Training Station during the second World War.

The oldest living cultivated fruit tree in North America.

A little Lego easter egg is hidden underwater in the Boston Tea Party tableau at Miniland.

Second largest wastewater treatment plant in the country.

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

This piece of peacetime naval wreckage memorializes the tragic sinking of the USS Maine--an event which sparked the Spanish-American war.

The location of one of the first private Catholic schools in the country, providing a valuable sanctuary during the tumultuous period when Protestant and Catholic students were at odds.

The statue of John Harvard isn't actually John Harvard—or even, technically, the founder of the school.

A school used as a model for public education across the country.

A memorial sculpture to heath hens stands on the spot where the last heath hen, Booming Ben, was last seen.

The ruins of one of the first railroads in the U.S. lie hidden within a neighborhood cul-de-sac.

A freighter full of exotic animals ends a harrowing voyage impaled on uncharted rocks in the Boston Harbor.

This dam in the woods, built by Henry Ford with only manpower and oxen, holds no water and serves no purpose.

A remnant of the 19th-century dream to discourage people from drinking booze by offering them water.

Everyone's favorite neighbor is remembered fondly in this small-town church.