Places Polytropa Wants to Go

She become one of the first women to serve in the United States military by secretly dressing like a man.

Ghostly specters are said to haunt this secluded cave where a famed Wampanoag leader spent the final days of his life.

Artifacts of whaling, with both its perils and adventure, are housed in this museum in a former candle factory.

A pig barn converted into one of the most eclectic residences in Nantucket.

A parade of antique steeds offers a quirky ride through history.

This beautiful Cape Cod beach offers dazzling views and an interesting historical footnote.

Hundreds of personalized inscribed planks make up this historic boardwalk.

This Cape Cod museum exhibits what it claims is the only authenticated pirate treasure in the world.

Outstanding collection of 19th century medical instruments includes a life-size figure cast from as many as 200 cadavers.

This lakeside tower is the third attempt at getting a tourist destination to stick on the spot.

This museum on a college campus pays tribute to the Arctic and to two explorer alumni.

Five mythical trolls have taken up residence in woods and hidden on paths at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens.

A rare 16-bedroom Qing Dynasty house re-erected on the campus of the Peabody Essex Museum. 

This impressive Boston holy house is the American mecca for Christian scientists.

Each August, one of the largest religious (and food) celebrations in the country is held in Boston.

Millions of numbers carved in glass represent the tattoos forced upon victims.

This popular Boston haunt is reminiscent of a time gone by, when slow cafes and sweet-smelling smoke wafting from patios was the norm.

A mysterious stone embedded at the base of a historic Boston building.

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

An easy-to-miss garden in Boston's North End honors the mother of JFK and others who lost children in WWII.

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

The tomb of Increase Mather and his son Cotton, influential colonial ministers obsessed with the occult.

"Mock all and sundry things, but leave the saints alone."

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.