Places Riki Wants to Go

The mighty room where the poet spent most of her life is available to rent for an hour or two.

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

One of America's most historic homes also holds a startling literary legacy.

This mysterious artificial cave has long puzzled New Englanders.

A more than 260-year-old crypt built on Boston's oldest English burial ground.

Bouncing, delightful, mechanical art at the MIT Museum.

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

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

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

Hut with supplies for shipwreck survivors.

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.

A careful eye can find hundreds of dinosaur tracks running along the Connecticut River.

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

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

This roadside attraction attracts kids with dinosaurs before blindsiding them with geology.

The homestead of American patriot John Adams.

A museum dedicated exclusively to the lore and history of ouija boards.

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

Resonating tubes make music from highway overpass.

This evocatively named natural crevasse was created by a torrent of water that smashed right through a granite deposit.

One of the last remaining World War II Victory Gardens in the U.S. is quietly growing across from Fenway Park.

The railroad tunnel nicknamed the "Bloody Pit" for taking the lives of hundreds during its construction.

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