Places originalcynmv Wants to Go

"Call for the doctor, call for the nurse... Vote!! said the lady with the alligator purse."

The Fox Sisters, America's leading mediums in the mid-19th century, possessed a table they claimed helped them "communicate" with the dead.

A historic custom house with ties to George Washington is now a shrine to local nautical history.

A defunct all-girls college which may be the resting place of H.P. Lovecraft's real-life Necronomicon.

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

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

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

This picturesque abandoned home is rumored to be a spite house.

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

Around 160 years ago, this spot marked the location of a wharf along the shores of the Charles River.

Located in Faneuil Hall, the headquarters of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts has stood the test of time.

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

A disastrous shipwreck and a tragic love story.

The infamous Boston Mob ran rackets from an office here in the 1970s.

An 80-year-old house built out of newspapers.

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

A freighter full of exotic animals ends a harrowing voyage impaled on uncharted rocks in the Boston Harbor.

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.

This Gothic castle was inspired by Erik the Red's Viking residence at Brattahlid in Greenland.

The terrified face of Henry Wells is etched on this garret window.

A museum in Mississippi celebrates the history of Coca-Cola and the man who brought it to the masses.

A blues musician so talented that people said he must have traded his soul to the devil was born in this house.