Places rmcmacki Wants to Go

Whimsical cookie-themed plaques mark the birthplace of the Fig Newton.

Mass Grave of 48 colonists killed in a raid by Native Americans and the French in 1704.

This site commemorates the former inn and restaurant where the chocolate chip cookie was first crafted.

It took 275 years and four burials to finally put the Mayflower’s most famous passenger to rest.

This sprawling 18th-century cemetery features unique and beautiful gravestones, including one shaped like a tree.

Visit a sweet shop selling one of the first candies ever made and sold in America.

This delicate museum is devoted to the art and industry that once supported Cape Cod's oldest town.

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

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

The ceiling of this vintage movie palace is covered in fantastic Art Deco murals.

Artifacts of whaling, with both its perils and adventure, are housed in this museum in a former candle factory.

The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.

This home is steeped in history from, George Washington to George Corwin, High Sheriff during the Salem Witch Trials.

Civil War Fort on an island in the Boston Harbor.

This tower pays homage to a legendary Viking fort established in Massachusetts that never really existed.

One of the few remaining monuments dedicated to South Boston's Irish heritage.

The oldest living cultivated fruit tree in North America.

This Dutch-styled residential building was originally a cocoa company's World's Fair showpiece.

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

This stone tower in a small town's graveyard looks as though it would be more at home in a fairy tale.

A tiny monument to the classic American candy.

This small glass cube is a peaceful out-of-the-way sanctuary at the busy airport.

A steampunk wonderland that preserves America's history of industrial innovation.

Try a classic Necco candy bar being resurrected in a small suburban shop.