Places lisefrac Wants to Go

The largest body of water in Massachusetts annihilated four small towns just to slake Boston's thirst.

All that remains of this Massachusetts town, demolished in the name of progress, is a stone marker.

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.

Overgrown ruins of a turn of the century island fort that sees very few visitors.

This is the house that spite built.

A coastal rock outcrop with mysterious inscriptions variously attributed to Native Americans, Portuguese, Phoenicians, Norse, and more.

A mysterious collection of stones stand outside a small New England town.

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

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

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

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

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

Site of the creepy house used in Lucio Fulci's "The House by the Cemetery."

University of New Hampshire holds the documentation and artifacts of local alien abductees.

The ghost town that was one of New Hampshire's first settlements now exists as a park detailing its history.

This miniature feudal castle was built on a whim to honor a US Navy pioneer.

The ruins of a Massachusetts prison farm can still be found crumbling the woods of a state park.

Supposed Massachusetts Grave of a pre-Columbus Knight Templar.

A monument in a town outside of Boston celebrates the visits of Edgar Allan Poe.

This railroad tunnel was once the longest in Massachusetts.