Places lizziebelle Wants to Go

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

The site of the first "historically true" UFO encounter in the U.S.

The mansion home of author Edith Wharton.

An elaborate, hidden model train in the Needham Town Forest.

Rising 30 feet in the air atop Quarry Hill, the Old Powder House is the oldest stone building in the state of Massachusetts.

This railroad tunnel was once the longest in Massachusetts.

One of America's most historic homes also holds a startling literary legacy.

This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.

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

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

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

This evocatively named natural crevasse was created by a torrent of water that smashed right through a granite deposit.

An old trolley bridge was converted into a breathtaking garden bursting with colorful flowers.

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

An alley way dedicated to graffiti and street art is a constantly changing street gallery.

Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.

Palatial mansion estate used in films including "Flowers in the Attic" and "The Witches of Eastwick."

Narrowest house in Boston.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

35,000 grape hyacinths flow like water down a garden hill.

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

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

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.

The Mysterious Witch Bonney, a haunted statue in an old industrial city.