Places nancybdeol Wants to Go

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

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

Stolen goods adorn the organ at Old North Church.

Tragedy on Little Brewster Island memorialized.

A school used as a model for public education across the country.

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

This Massachusetts home was the first to have a telephone line and its own phone number: 1.

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

A little Lego easter egg is hidden underwater in the Boston Tea Party tableau at Miniland.

Massachusetts memorial to murder victim Elizabeth Short near the spot where she was born.

Palatial mansion estate used in films including "Flowers in the Attic" and "The Witches of Eastwick."

This headstone-like marker inscribed with three words has been an utter mystery for over a century.

A cave dug by a man directed by ghosts to find pirate treasure.

At the supposed instruction of Ben Franklin and Socrates, a Spiritualist believer intended to birth a mechanical messiah here.

The lecture hall where Alexander Graham Bell first demonstrated the long-distance phone call.

A dollhouse full of taxidermy rodents, each one handcrafted and given a sordid past.

Rumored to have tormented a family in the late 1960s, this toy now resides in a quiet little oddities shop.

Grave of the man allegedly responsible for a series of infamous murders in Boston in the 1960s.

The oldest living cultivated fruit tree in North America.

This historic graveyard monument is dedicated to a tragic victim of witch trial hysteria.

Located just behind a quiet residential neighborhood, this is ground zero for the Salem witchcraft hysteria of 1692.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.

One of the world's most complex timepieces.