Places stevealexanderb Wants to Go

This abandoned cemetery is crumbling into ruin, exposing the artifacts and bodies buried there.

At the supposed instruction of Ben Franklin and Socrates, a Spiritualist believer intended to birth a mechanical messiah here.

The abandoned grounds and derelict greenhouses of this once-magnificent Edwardian estate are now a nature preserve open for exploration.

Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and one of the largest glass murals in the US.

This 'Murder House' grand mansion has starred in everything from Bones to Buffy.

Former laboratory of radical psychiatrist Wilhelm Reich.

St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.

This stone gatehouse was once the entrance to a historic mountain resort, and it had a cameo in a cheesy cult horror movie.

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

Oldest church in the United States that is still in continuous use.

This historic graveyard monument is dedicated to a tragic victim of witch trial hysteria.

Located just behind a quiet residential neighborhood, this is ground zero for the Salem witchcraft hysteria of 1692.

Palatial mansion estate used in films including "Flowers in the Attic" and "The Witches of Eastwick."

Stay at this storybook estate, featuring Sir Henry Hudson Kitson's masterpiece "Gingerbread House."

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

Friction between grains of sand cause a curious "singing" sound.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

Stolen goods adorn the organ at Old North Church.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

This giant Boston statue of Mary is standing on a globe to show her power over the universe.

This ambitious father and son team reigned supreme over the North End, and witches, for many years.

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.