Places rachel redux Wants to Go

The sprawling, eccentric estate of Ames and Ames, a brilliant botanist, and a genius inventor and artist.

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

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

The macabre graffiti spectacle in a quarry in a Massachusetts forest reservation.

This railroad tunnel was once the longest in Massachusetts.

This historic graveyard monument is dedicated to a tragic victim of witch trial hysteria.

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

An old trolley bridge was converted into a breathtaking garden bursting with colorful flowers.

Run by a eugenics advocate, this aging institution conducted secret radiation experiments sponsored by Quaker Oats.

Locals purchased this abandoned quarry in order to make sure it continues to be overgrown.

On top of Gibbet Hill lie the ruins of a lavish turn-of-the-century estate that never quite came to be.

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.

This miniature feudal castle was built on a whim to honor a US Navy pioneer.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.

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

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

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

Friction between grains of sand cause a curious "singing" sound.

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

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.