Places maxvaughn Wants to Go

A Scottish manor with a history of mysterious fires, magic, and eccentric tales

The Zalud family experienced a number of tragedies in one decade, giving rise to rumors that the 19th century house is haunted.

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

California's oldest wind harp represents a historic piece of America's Danish history.

Honoring the famed folktale author, this California museum looks like it belongs in the Black Forest.

A plaque marking the famous abolitionist's birthplace often overlooked by visitors to the nearby Charles Sumner House.

This headstone marks the grave of an 11-year-old boy killed during clashes in the streets over the boycotting of British goods.

The former site of an all-but-forgotten colonial landmark is now remembered by an often overlooked bas relief.

Stolen goods adorn the organ at Old North Church.

This funeral home had the honor, if that is the correct word, of hosting the funeral of the famous Sacco and Vanzetti.

Tragedy on Little Brewster Island memorialized.

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

The oldest working bell set in North America, the bells at Old North Church sat silent for their first four years in Massachusetts.

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.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

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

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

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

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

This ambitious father and son team reigned supreme over the North End, and witches, for many years.

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

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.