Places marasta215 Wants to Go

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

This unassuming stone commemorates a condiment factory gone up in smoke.

The oldest tavern in Lowell has dedicated fans of its fan.

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

A pair of 7-foot legs belonging to the military man of the Mayflower stand jauntily by the side of the road.

Around 160 years ago, this spot marked the location of a wharf along the shores of the Charles River.

A disastrous shipwreck and a tragic love story.

A 19th-century smallpox cemetery is being reclaimed by scrub forest and sand dunes.

Marigolds, rosemary, Madonna lilies, and the Virgin’s Bower decorate this Massachusetts sacred garden.

On a side street near the interstate is the building where the famous anarchist once owned an ice cream parlor.

This Massachusetts home was the first to have a telephone line and its own phone number: 1.

The nation's second-ever First Lady urged the founding fathers to "remember the ladies."

The hero of the women's suffrage movement birth home is now a museum dedicated to her legacy.

The haunting history of a little girl lost.

Surrounded by lonely toys, this Massachusetts gravestone marks the final resting place of six children who were murdered by poverty.

This lakeside tower is the third attempt at getting a tourist destination to stick on the spot.

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

This wooly sculpture supposedly marks the birthplace of a famous nursery rhyme, or not.

This old mill and former police station now present a world-class collection of Orthodox iconography.

Once the largest public hospital for the mentally ill was also surrounded by controversy.

This Gothic castle was inspired by Erik the Red's Viking residence at Brattahlid in Greenland.

A comic book store got the road by its shop officially renamed after Superman's girlfriend.

Whimsical cookie-themed plaques mark the birthplace of the Fig Newton.

Once a kitschy symbol for a gift shop, this 38-foot seahorse is now a staple roadside attraction.