Places Opinicus Wants to Go

The oldest surviving wood-frame building in North America is still in the family.

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

The house where Rudyard Kipling wrote 'The Jungle Book' is also the location of the first tennis court in Vermont.

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

On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.

The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.

From bench to vandalism to art, this silly prank seat was funny enough to become permanent.

One of the largest public collection of historic armored and military vehicles in North America.

This historic cemetery is filled with markers that look more like candy than was likely intended.

The ruins of a Massachusetts prison farm can still be found crumbling the woods of a state park.

All that remains of this Massachusetts town, demolished in the name of progress, is a stone marker.

This Dutch-styled residential building was originally a cocoa company's World's Fair showpiece.

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

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

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

One man's psychedelic fence is painted with his cacophonous folk art musings on the world.

This 50-foot rock formation looked like a face that was once believed to be that of a Native American chief.

Resonating tubes make music from highway overpass.

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

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

The childhood home of the meat inspector who would become the face of America.

This small-town library was the first in the world to be entirely supported by taxation.

This modern medieval weapon of war was built to toss pumpkins.

Murder scene memorialized in perpetuity by grisly obelisk.