Places Megan Johnson Wants to Go

This is the house that spite built.

Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.

Trash escaped from a landfill to fill beaches with all kinds of treasure.

This tiny, painted door at the base of a tree stump has been a fixture of the Harvard University campus for decades.

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

35,000 grape hyacinths flow like water down a garden hill.

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.

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

One of the most scenic falls in Massachusetts has a history of death and grim legend.

The thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.

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

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

The oldest still-operating tavern in the United States was once owned by a pirate.

A single light illuminates one man's overshadowed contributions to street lamp history.

An architecturally unique lighthouse that had to be lifted up and moved to avoid falling in the sea.

You can spend the night as an honorary lighthouse keeper in this quaint, historic beacon.

To avoid the demolition costs this abandoned drawbridge was simply left in the up position.

This 3,500 pound obelisk was constructed with more than 1,000 reclaimed guns.

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

Books bound in human skin and H. P. Lovecraft's letters are among a few of the treasures this library has to offer.

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."

A tiny memorial for the year the Connecticut River almost destroyed New England.

An easy-to-miss plaque marks the building that first held this 19th-century telephone innovation.