Places rshaffer Wants to Go

A quiet memorial marks the spot where the victims of the Salem Witch Trials were executed.

On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.

This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.

Tragedy on Little Brewster Island memorialized.

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

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

This ambitious father and son team reigned supreme over the North End, and witches, for many years.

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

This area was once known for being a lawless haven for rough-and-tumble sailors, earning the maritime-themed nickname "the black sea."

An interesting decoration on this historic site, this weathervane comes with as many legends as it does questions.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

The final resting place of the first documented Chinese person in the United States lies in a Boston cemetery.

American revolutionaries and British soldiers alike are buried here in the fourth-ever cemetery in Boston.

Harry Houdini plunged into the Charles River and performed one of his escape acts here in 1908.

This dramatic rail curve was once the target of a failed Nazi attack.

Memorializing an American tragedy of massive proportions.

Steepest flood safety railway in the entire world.

In which a local geological marvel becomes a quaint roadside attraction.

It marks the spooky spot where the bodies of two young boys were found in the 19th century.