Places reelmack Wants to Go

The lecture hall where Alexander Graham Bell first demonstrated the long-distance phone call.

Hut with supplies for shipwreck survivors.

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

One of two lighted lanterns hung in the church belfry on the eve of the Revolutionary War to warn that the British were on their way.

One philanthropist's extensive collection of knick-knacks and curiosities is now a public museum of oddity.

Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

The pleasant woodland cemetery that has inspired more than its fair share of wild legends.

Colorful clay cliffs tower over an unofficial nudist beach on Martha's Vineyard.

Journey through vintage Americana inside this small Massachusetts shop.

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

According to legend, Bob Dylan sneaks in twice a year to eat dinner with Jack.

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

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

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

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

Silverware in the sidewalk outside a grocery store cements this neighborhood’s Italian culinary history.

The homestead of American patriot John Adams.

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

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

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

This mysterious artificial cave has long puzzled New Englanders.

Founded by the famed children's book artist, this museum spreads an appreciation of the arts through picture books.

Grave of the man allegedly responsible for a series of infamous murders in Boston in the 1960s.

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