Places mpholtje Wants to Go

Civil War Fort on an island in the Boston Harbor.

Resonating tubes make music from highway overpass.

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

Memorial of the Salem witchcraft hysteria in the town of Danvers, where it all began.

Hut with supplies for shipwreck survivors.

The site of the tragic isolation of Nipmuc Native Americans left to perish in King Philip's War.

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

This decrepit abandoned building is made all the more eerie by its dark history.

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

The hill that gave the Massachusett tribe, and later the state, its name.

The two writers famously didn't come to blows over the Oxford comma.

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

A monument to the Mohawk people stands along an old Native American trade route.

A monument park dedicated to the influential Beat Generation author and poet, Jack Kerouac.

This series of landscape dioramas tell the story of New England forestry in exacting miniature detail.

This historic cemetery is filled with markers that look more like candy than was likely intended.

This railroad tunnel was once the longest in Massachusetts.

Supposed Massachusetts Grave of a pre-Columbus Knight Templar.

This cavernous abandoned marble mine is popular with ice skaters in the winter.

Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

One of America's first spies started out as a teacher in this little red one-room schoolhouse.

This once-private estate is now a dreamy, meditative garden that's open to the public.

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

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.