Places scmc825 Wants to Go

The Atlantis of Cape Cod reemerges during the lowest of tides.

35,000 grape hyacinths flow like water down a garden hill.

A Medieval Water Tower in the Heart of Massachusetts.

New England's "Witches of Eastwick" locations, in all of their quaint white churched glory.

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

Plans for this peninsula included houses, the United Nations Headquarters, and a nuclear power plant. When none of them worked out, it became an expansive park.

Last church of this militaristic WWII style.

A lighthouse on a diminutive island was one of the first of its kind to guide seamen home.

Hut with supplies for shipwreck survivors.

A pair of 7-foot legs belonging to the military man of the Mayflower stand jauntily by the side of the road.

An alley way dedicated to graffiti and street art is a constantly changing street gallery.

A coastal rock outcrop with mysterious inscriptions variously attributed to Native Americans, Portuguese, Phoenicians, Norse, and more.

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

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

Run by a eugenics advocate, this aging institution conducted secret radiation experiments sponsored by Quaker Oats.

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

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.

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

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

This classic red schoolhouse is said to have been where Mary and her little lamb went to school.

This 3,500 pound obelisk was constructed with more than 1,000 reclaimed guns.

This mysterious artificial cave has long puzzled New Englanders.

This natural rock "church" might not be a proper chapel but that doesn't mean it's not beautiful.