Places Temporary Hero Wants to Go

One of the oldest baseball fields in continuous use has been hosting games since 1878.

This piece of peacetime naval wreckage memorializes the tragic sinking of the USS Maine--an event which sparked the Spanish-American war.

The site of the tragic isolation of Nipmuc Native Americans left to perish in King Philip's War.

Around 160 years ago, this spot marked the location of a wharf along the shores of the Charles River.

The last remaining 19th-century tenement from Boston's old West End neighborhood.

She become one of the first women to serve in the United States military by secretly dressing like a man.

The scarce remains of a sunken ship peek out from the sand on East Beach.

Millions of numbers carved in glass represent the tattoos forced upon victims.

The home of a famed utopian science fiction author has been preserved long after his predicted future in the year 2000.

The monumental steeple on Amherst College's campus has no church attached to it.

This exhibit is one of the largest and most well-preserved collections of Jurassic-era trackways in the United States.

America's "second most important bell" is a contentious spoil of the Civil War.

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

All that remains of this Massachusetts town, demolished in the name of progress, is a stone marker.

This Massachusetts home was the first to have a telephone line and its own phone number: 1.

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

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

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

Last church of this militaristic WWII style.

This funeral home had the honor, if that is the correct word, of hosting the funeral of the famous Sacco and Vanzetti.

The former site of an all-but-forgotten colonial landmark is now remembered by an often overlooked bas relief.

This dam in the woods, built by Henry Ford with only manpower and oxen, holds no water and serves no purpose.

Civil War-era Fort designed to withstand invasion and attack, with tricky traps called "murder holes."

This Cape Cod museum exhibits what it claims is the only authenticated pirate treasure in the world.