Places sheinsis Wants to Go

Civil War Fort on an island in the Boston Harbor.

The oldest surviving wood-frame building in North America is still in the family.

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

This rare symbol of Eastern philosophy in the West has been created over years of painstaking construction by the local community.

This mysterious artificial cave has long puzzled New Englanders.

One philanthropist's extensive collection of knick-knacks and curiosities is now a public museum of oddity.

The pleasant woodland cemetery that has inspired more than its fair share of wild legends.

Hut with supplies for shipwreck survivors.

An 80-year-old house built out of newspapers.

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

The homestead of American patriot John Adams.

Overgrown ruins of a turn of the century island fort that sees very few visitors.

The site of the first "historically true" UFO encounter in the U.S.

Home to the Titanic Historical Society's collection.

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."

"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."

This railroad tunnel was once the longest in Massachusetts.

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

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.

No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.

Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

An otherworldly musical haven in The Big Easy.

The greatest collection of New Orleans masking and processional traditions covering everything from Baby Dolls to Skull and Bone gangs.