Places mwkjones Wants to Go

A work of art that pays homage to a Victorian timepiece in Providence.

This Cape Cod museum exhibits what it claims is the only authenticated pirate treasure in the world.

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

Dedicated to one of the darkest moments in Irish history.

A three-piece musical sculpture installed between the subway tracks at Kendall Station near MIT.

MIT students continue the legacy of beloved professor "Doc" Edgerton through learning by doing.

The headquarters of one of the world’s longest-running humor magazines bears a noticeable resemblance to a head wearing a Prussian helmet.

This massive World War II calculator hearkens back to the days when "computer" was a job title.

Despite the name, this narrow bridge isn't very dangerous at all.

The stone sculpture of an Ottoman soldier is an homage to a lost Providence landmark.

The vaguely man-shaped root that ate the body of the founder of Rhode Island.

A strangely angled West Village home is the only monument to an explosion that took the lives of three American revolutionaries.

After traveling the world, one of the last remaining fully-rigged three masted iron-hulled cargo ship in the world found its home in New York.

This storybook New England home is actually a decommissioned lighthouse.

The only surviving fragment of the lost Narragansett Pier Casino.

Off a hiking trail in Rhode Island stands a picturesque memorial to a long-forgotten war.

An ancient cemetery with some historic bodies underfoot.

Abandoned Coast Artillery fort now serves as a graffiti canvas and sightseeing vantage point.

Rhode Island's tallest building bears a resemblance to the "Daily Planet" building and has been empty for more than five years.

The first newspaper printed by an expeditionary force was published in this colonial mansion.

Tucked away in downtown Westerly is America's first shark history museum.

The only remaining historic maritime signal station in the United States.

One woman’s obsession gave birth to this lovely oddity at the Boston Public Library.

Stay at this storybook estate, featuring Sir Henry Hudson Kitson's masterpiece "Gingerbread House."