Places MaxC Wants to Go

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

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

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

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

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

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

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

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

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

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

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

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.

The thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.

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

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

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

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

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.