Places sarahltait Wants to Go

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

"Mock all and sundry things, but leave the saints alone."

Ice cream stand, snack bar, and time capsule of milk conveyance.

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

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

Narrowest house in Boston.

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

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

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

The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.

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

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

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

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

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

One of the now-less-hidden floral gems of the "Emerald Necklace."

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

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

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

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

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.