Places rlutton Wants to Go

These whimsical works of art tell the story of the city's past and present.

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

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

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

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

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

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

A gas station and a state sign commemorating the most famous claims of extraterrestrial abduction.

This massive boulder is inscribed with the story of a sensational hostage negotiation dating back to Colonial times.

Beautiful natural falls where Satan once ruined a pot of beans.

This cave was once thought to be a hiding place for the devil.

Small caves once used as a hiding place for some of those accused during the Salem Witch Trials.

A monument in a town outside of Boston celebrates the visits of Edgar Allan Poe.

The ruins of an abandoned 18th-century town that is slowly being reclaimed by the forest.

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.

Once the largest public hospital for the mentally ill was also surrounded by controversy.

This dam in the woods, built by Henry Ford with only manpower and oxen, holds no water and serves no purpose.

A spooky and decrepit mental health facility is slowly being replaced with newer digs.

In the middle of a New England forest sit the crumbling ruins of World War II-era ammunition storage bunkers.

The only surviving building of historic West Boylston, which was flooded to create the Wachusett Reservoir.