Places thefroghag Wants to Go

One of the most scenic falls in Massachusetts has a history of death and grim legend.

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

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

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

This upscale streetwear store is hidden behind a fake Snapple machine in the back of a deli.

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

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

An abandoned 146-acre summer resort slowly being reclaimed by nature.

Underground tunnels remain beneath this abandoned mental asylum.

A reliquary of pop culture marvels, including the world's largest (and most terrifying) Jack-in-the-Box.

An abandoned Victorian-era mill in the middle of modern Manchester.

Celebrating an art form with a collection of puppets from all over the world.

A small museum packed with specimens from important fossil sites and minerals from historical pegmatite quarries.

This opera house along the banks of the Connecticut River has two Tony Awards to its credit but it’s never staged a single opera.

An easy-to-miss plaque marks the building that first held this 19th-century telephone innovation.

A free display of artistic lifesize dinosaur sculptures in a backyard garden.