Places shbtlr Wants to Go

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

This massive tea kettle was once a promotional stunt for the Oriental Teashop.

The last remaining 19th-century tenement from Boston's old West End neighborhood.

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

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

A luxury hotel constructed out of a former jail.

The Boston home of a conductor on the Underground Railroad.

Former home of an abolitionist couple who escaped slavery and established the most active Underground Railroad stop in Boston.

A plaque marking the famous abolitionist's birthplace often overlooked by visitors to the nearby Charles Sumner House.

In the 19th century, this was the center of Boston's Black community.

Historic home of a Black veteran of the American Revolution and one of the earliest civil rights activists in the United States.

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

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

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

A pair of antique trolleys are on display at one of the oldest subway stations in the United States.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

This historic Boston building has gone from personal estate to porn theater and back again.

A beacon atop a downtown building provides Bostonians with weather forecasts and baseball news.

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

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

The former headquarters for Whitey Bulger and the notorious Winter Hill Gang.

This Massachusetts home was the first to have a telephone line and its own phone number: 1.

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