Places nancybdeol Wants to Go

Civil War-era Fort designed to withstand invasion and attack, with tricky traps called "murder holes."

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

This donated headstone marks the grave of a pair of elderly women who were mysteriously murdered.

An obelisk marks the farmhouse where the founder of Mormonism was born.

Hut with supplies for shipwreck survivors.

A man in a plane delivers Christmas packages to lighthouses.

A disastrous shipwreck and a tragic love story.

This impressive Boston holy house is the American mecca for Christian scientists.

One of the last remaining World War II Victory Gardens in the U.S. is quietly growing across from Fenway Park.

The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.

A plaque memorializes the Boston location of one of the largest nightclub fires in history.

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

This historic Boston building has gone from personal estate to porn theater and back again.

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

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

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

These whimsical works of art tell the story of the city's past and present.

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

A tiny plaque marks the location of the water source that facilitated the birth of modern-day Boston.

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

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

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