Places stephradner Wants to Go

This beautiful architectural gem was the first waste treatment facility in Boston.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.

This tower pays homage to a legendary Viking fort established in Massachusetts that never really existed.

The Wright Tavern is possibly the most important building in Concord Massachusetts to the American Revolution.

One of two lighted lanterns hung in the church belfry on the eve of the Revolutionary War to warn that the British were on their way.

"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."

A stone marker dedicated to a Black veteran of the American Revolution who refused to leave his land near Walden Pond.

The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.

A steampunk wonderland that preserves America's history of industrial innovation.

Memorial to a beloved puppeteer as well as all street performers.

This plaque is dedicated to one-half of the Magliozzi brothers and their hit radio show, 'Car Talk.'

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

The 1920s child prodigy author was last seen here at her Brookline home before vanishing at age 25.

Though a proud Texan, the 41st President of the United States started life in the suburbs of Boston.

This electronics repair store celebrates the history of computers.

If you don't look closely, you might mistake this sculpture for just another passenger waiting at the airport.

A vast array of tropical plants collected by a vacationing couple.

Disney's abandoned animal island is now an overgrown ruin that was almost the coolest attraction ever.

This twisty sign depicts the chain's first logo.

This mansion on an island off the coast of Georgia once belonged to a 108-year-old heiress.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.