Places marasta215 Wants to Go

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

One philanthropist's extensive collection of knick-knacks and curiosities is now a public museum of oddity.

The remnants of a Gilded Age elegance preserved in the middle of a stark modern tower.

This tall Massachusetts folly got its name thanks to all of the purple prose its vistas inspired.

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

Hut with supplies for shipwreck survivors.

The pleasant woodland cemetery that has inspired more than its fair share of wild legends.

According to legend, Bob Dylan sneaks in twice a year to eat dinner with Jack.

The sprawling, eccentric estate of Ames and Ames, a brilliant botanist, and a genius inventor and artist.

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

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

An 80-year-old house built out of newspapers.

This roadside attraction attracts kids with dinosaurs before blindsiding them with geology.

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

No one messes with the Massachusetts sacred cod, not this time...

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

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

The macabre graffiti spectacle in a quarry in a Massachusetts forest reservation.

This is the house that spite built.

Massachusetts memorial to murder victim Elizabeth Short near the spot where she was born.

The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg’s famous shark movie.

Resonating tubes make music from highway overpass.

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

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