Places LeslieDriskill Wants to Go

One woman’s obsession gave birth to this lovely oddity at the Boston Public Library.

The oldest working bell set in North America, the bells at Old North Church sat silent for their first four years in Massachusetts.

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

Sacks of potatoes, made of cast stone, mark where the iconic potato sheds once stood along the river.

American revolutionaries and British soldiers alike are buried here in the fourth-ever cemetery in Boston.

Historic Hull Street was actually the first street with a proper name in the Boston area.

A more than 260-year-old crypt built on Boston's oldest English burial ground.

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

On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.

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.

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

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

This giant Boston statue of Mary is standing on a globe to show her power over the universe.

This ambitious father and son team reigned supreme over the North End, and witches, for many years.

The tomb of Increase Mather and his son Cotton, influential colonial ministers obsessed with the occult.

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

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

Narrowest house in Boston.

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

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

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

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