Places noeco Wants to Go

The head of a legendary lumberjack watches over a river in Maine.

From economic backbone of a community to deadly diving hole, these former stone quarries are now a park for rock climbers and graffiti artists.

This small shop walked so America could run on Dunkin'.

A stunning garden filled with fantastical environmental folk art and sculptures.

One of the first amphibian migration tunnels in the United States encourages a tradition that has inspired Amherst residents for decades.

This miniature museum is home to a vast array of insects.

Founded by the famed children's book artist, this museum spreads an appreciation of the arts through picture books.

The walkable ruins of an 19th century hotel, destroyed in a horse cremation gone wrong.

In the middle of a New England forest sit the crumbling ruins of World War II-era ammunition storage bunkers.

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.

This tower pays homage to a legendary Viking fort established in Massachusetts that never really existed.

Once the largest public hospital for the mentally ill was also surrounded by controversy.

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

This former Masonic hall has been turned into an art project that uses even more metaphysical iconography.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

This steep slide at a kids’ playground went viral after an police officer tumbled down it.

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

A daybeacon pyramid is about all that's left of this island that is said to have sunk due to a pirate's curse.

A New England ghost town features a trail of boulders etched with intriguing life lessons.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

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 macabre graffiti spectacle in a quarry in a Massachusetts forest reservation.