Places Temporary Hero Wants to Go

For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.

This roadside attraction attracts kids with dinosaurs before blindsiding them with geology.

The homestead of American patriot John Adams.

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

A coastal rock outcrop with mysterious inscriptions variously attributed to Native Americans, Portuguese, Phoenicians, Norse, and more.

Overgrown ruins of a turn of the century island fort that sees very few visitors.

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

This is the house that spite built.

The macabre graffiti spectacle in a quarry in a Massachusetts forest reservation.

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

This picturesque abandoned home is rumored to be a spite house.

Massachusetts memorial to murder victim Elizabeth Short near the spot where she was born.

A spooky and decrepit mental health facility is slowly being replaced with newer digs.

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

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

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

"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 mysterious collection of stones stand outside a small New England town.

Locals purchased this abandoned quarry in order to make sure it continues to be overgrown.

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

Run by a eugenics advocate, this aging institution conducted secret radiation experiments sponsored by Quaker Oats.

On top of Gibbet Hill lie the ruins of a lavish turn-of-the-century estate that never quite came to be.

A cave dug by a man directed by ghosts to find pirate treasure.

Narrowest house in Boston.