Places sierrawest Wants to Go

This site commemorates the former inn and restaurant where the chocolate chip cookie was first crafted.

Everyone's favorite neighbor is remembered fondly in this small-town church.

This series of landscape dioramas tell the story of New England forestry in exacting miniature detail.

The haunting history of a little girl lost.

Plymouth's huge yet little-known memorial to the Pilgrims.

Final resting place of the author who wrote the ghost story "The Turn of the Screw," and his brother, the Harvard doctor and paranormal investigator.

On a side street near the interstate is the building where the famous anarchist once owned an ice cream parlor.

This lakeside tower is the third attempt at getting a tourist destination to stick on the spot.

The nation's second-ever First Lady urged the founding fathers to "remember the ladies."

Surrounded by lonely toys, this Massachusetts gravestone marks the final resting place of six children who were murdered by poverty.

Large Massachusetts museum dedicated to Armenian history and culture.

This wooly sculpture supposedly marks the birthplace of a famous nursery rhyme, or not.

This old mill and former police station now present a world-class collection of Orthodox iconography.

One of the largest public collection of historic armored and military vehicles in North America.

The two writers famously didn't come to blows over the Oxford comma.

A comic book store got the road by its shop officially renamed after Superman's girlfriend.

Eat first, shop later at this eatery within an Asian grocer.

Site of the creepy house used in Lucio Fulci's "The House by the Cemetery."

The headquarters of one of the world’s longest-running humor magazines bears a noticeable resemblance to a head wearing a Prussian helmet.

Monument on the spot where in 1778, Bathsheba Spooner had her husband Joshua killed and dumped down his own well.

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

The largest body of water in Massachusetts annihilated four small towns just to slake Boston's thirst.

A rock outcropping left by a glacier that made itself useful throughout the centuries.

The right to a full beard is honored by the grave of a man who was attacked and jailed due to his facial hair.