Places reelmack 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.

Shelves covered in dozens of coffee bean varieties fill this North End institution.

This railroad tunnel was once the longest in Massachusetts.

Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.

This small shop walked so America could run on Dunkin'.

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

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.

A mysterious collection of stones stand outside a small New England town.

Palatial mansion estate used in films including "Flowers in the Attic" and "The Witches of Eastwick."

This historic patch of real estate offers a glimpse of colonial Boston.

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."

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

A cave dug by a man directed by ghosts to find pirate treasure.

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

The Mysterious Witch Bonney, a haunted statue in an old industrial city.

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

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

Narrowest house in Boston.

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

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

The thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.

The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.

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