Places Josh W. Wants to Go

A New England ghost town features a trail of boulders etched with intriguing life lessons.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

A sculpture in Hyannis commemorates Chief Sachem Iyannough of the Mattachiest tribe.

The largest battery in New England sits atop a Massachusetts mountain.

The first transatlantic wireless communication between the U.S. and Europe took place here in 1903.

This sculpture memorializes the town's connection to the famous horror author Edgar Allan Poe.

The first keystone arch railroad bridges constructed in America.

This building is more than 250 years old and was built in one of the first towns settled in Massachusetts.

The site of the Andover Witch Hunts, which ended with more witch accusations and arrests than Salem.

The final resting place of a man who claimed that he could tame even the mightiest of bears.

A rare 16-bedroom Qing Dynasty house re-erected on the campus of the Peabody Essex Museum. 

The hill that gave the Massachusett tribe, and later the state, its name.

Burial ground for revolutionary veterans attracts tall tales, ghost hunters, not enough historians and preservationists.

The sprawling, eccentric estate of Ames and Ames, a brilliant botanist, and a genius inventor and artist.

It was an experiment to prove that glacial boulders and rocks can be used in constructions and dwelling.

One philanthropist's extensive collection of knick-knacks and curiosities is now a public museum of oddity.

This Victorian home turned opera house may have a phantom of its own.

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

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

The macabre paintings created by famous suicide proponent Jack Kevorkian, or "Dr. Death."

Rumored to have tormented a family in the late 1960s, this toy now resides in a quiet little oddities shop.

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

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

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