Places Josh W. Wants to Go

Mary Rowlandson's kidnapping ordeal became one of the nation's first best-selling books.

A monument to the first person to sail around the world solo, nowhere close to where he was born, set sail, or landed.

Site of an oft forgotten and revolutionary battle.

In the middle of a New England forest sit the crumbling ruins of World War II-era ammunition storage bunkers.

This plaque commemorates the call between Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas A. Watson.

Plans for this peninsula included houses, the United Nations Headquarters, and a nuclear power plant. When none of them worked out, it became an expansive park.

This beautiful Cape Cod beach offers dazzling views and an interesting historical footnote.

This stimulating sex toy museum is sure to arouse the interest of its visitors.

A museum dedicated to Nantucket's legacy as the "graveyard of the Atlantic."

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

A daybeacon pyramid is about all that's left of this island that is said to have sunk due to a pirate's curse.

The oldest playground in America.

Solar powered Spectacle Island features all-green facilities.

This donated headstone marks the grave of a pair of elderly women who were mysteriously murdered.

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

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

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

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

This wooly sculpture supposedly marks the birthplace of a famous nursery rhyme, or not.

This site commemorates the former inn and restaurant where the chocolate chip cookie was first crafted.

The remains of a hospital ravaged by fire, once a progressive place of innovations for disabled children.

This unassuming Massachusetts residence was built with a trap door to hide escapees on the Underground Railroad.

A lighthouse on a diminutive island was one of the first of its kind to guide seamen home.

This little-known rival to the Library of Congress houses one of the largest collections of pre-1876 American books, newspapers, and manuscripts.