Places patricklongmire Wants to Go

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

The first bell ever cast in Boston was cast by Paul Revere...and sounded terrible.

Rising 30 feet in the air atop Quarry Hill, the Old Powder House is the oldest stone building in the state of Massachusetts.

This tall Massachusetts folly got its name thanks to all of the purple prose its vistas inspired.

The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg’s famous shark movie.

For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.

The homestead of American patriot John Adams.

Home to the Titanic Historical Society's collection.

This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.

Naturally formed white marble arch housed in an abandoned marble quarry from the 1800s.

No one messes with the Massachusetts sacred cod, not this time...

Overgrown ruins of a turn of the century island fort that sees very few visitors.

A coastal rock outcrop with mysterious inscriptions variously attributed to Native Americans, Portuguese, Phoenicians, Norse, and more.

Resonating tubes make music from highway overpass.

It's not a typo, now say it five times fast!

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

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

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.

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

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

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

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.