Places Ryan Keough Wants to Go

The ruins of one of the first railroads in the U.S. lie hidden within a neighborhood cul-de-sac.

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

It was an experiment to prove that glacial boulders and rocks can be used in constructions and dwelling.

At the supposed instruction of Ben Franklin and Socrates, a Spiritualist believer intended to birth a mechanical messiah here.

The hill that gave the Massachusett tribe, and later the state, its name.

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

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

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

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

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

The only certified Trappist brewery outside of Europe hides in the central Massachusetts hills.

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

This massive World War II calculator hearkens back to the days when "computer" was a job title.

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

Rising 30 feet in the air atop Quarry Hill, the Old Powder House is the oldest stone building in the state of Massachusetts.

An elaborate, hidden model train in the Needham Town Forest.

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.

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

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

This historic mini-suspension bridge was swept away once but is now here to stay.

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

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

This historic cemetery is filled with markers that look more like candy than was likely intended.