Places Raychael Wants to Go

This Massachusetts home was the first to have a telephone line and its own phone number: 1.

A safe space and resource for anything and everything relating to sex and sexuality.

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

This parking garage was the site of what was - at the time - the largest cash robbery in history.

Historic Hull Street was actually the first street with a proper name in the Boston area.

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

The location of one of the first private Catholic schools in the country, providing a valuable sanctuary during the tumultuous period when Protestant and Catholic students were at odds.

This ambitious father and son team reigned supreme over the North End, and witches, for many years.

One woman’s obsession gave birth to this lovely oddity at the Boston Public Library.

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

One of the indelible moments of the American Revolution took place at this location.

A plaque marking the famous abolitionist's birthplace often overlooked by visitors to the nearby Charles Sumner House.

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

This "life-size" depiction of Mickey Mouse as a half-lobster is both whimsical and a bit creepy, standing guard over the Boston waterfront.

This headstone marks the grave of an 11-year-old boy killed during clashes in the streets over the boycotting of British goods.

The remnants of a Gilded Age elegance preserved in the middle of a stark modern tower.

The 1920s child prodigy author was last seen here at her Brookline home before vanishing at age 25.

This upscale streetwear store is hidden behind a fake Snapple machine in the back of a deli.

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

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

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

A plaque memorializes the Boston location of one of the largest nightclub fires in history.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

"The Most Wonderful Wonder that ever appeared to the Wonder of the British Nation."