Places theolinger Wants to Go

In 1958, an MIT fraternity pledge laid down on this bridge and instituted a new, unique unit of measurement.

One man's psychedelic fence is painted with his cacophonous folk art musings on the world.

A tiny monument to the classic American candy.

This nearly endless university hallway is home to a unique sunset known as "MIThenge."

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

MIT students continue the legacy of beloved professor "Doc" Edgerton through learning by doing.

The strikingly modern structure stands out among the brick buildings speckling the Harvard Business School's campus.

This is the house that spite built.

A small plaque promises cold, hard cash in exchange for work by the famous pop artist.

Memorial to a beloved puppeteer as well as all street performers.

This plaque is dedicated to one-half of the Magliozzi brothers and their hit radio show, 'Car Talk.'

This massive World War II calculator hearkens back to the days when "computer" was a job title.

The thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.

A home decorated by its owner with eye-catching and captivating assemblages of found objects

Eat first, shop later at this eatery within an Asian grocer.

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

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

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.

Site of an oft forgotten and revolutionary battle.

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

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

A disastrous shipwreck and a tragic love story.

Hut with supplies for shipwreck survivors.

Hill-like structures formed by glaciers and sandy spits of land.