Places Talbot von Sregor Wants to Go

From bench to vandalism to art, this silly prank seat was funny enough to become permanent.

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

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

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

Shelves covered in dozens of coffee bean varieties fill this North End institution.

On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.

The tomb of Increase Mather and his son Cotton, influential colonial ministers obsessed with the occult.

This historic patch of real estate offers a glimpse of colonial Boston.

A more than 260-year-old crypt built on Boston's oldest English burial ground.

Narrowest house in Boston.

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

The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.

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

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

These whimsical works of art tell the story of the city's past and present.

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

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

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

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

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

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