Places waywardwillard Wants to Go

The remnants of a 19th-century ironmaking complex hidden in the woods of Connecticut.

Built to bless whalers before their voyages, this Massachusetts church now features a ship-shaped pulpit.

Colorful clay cliffs tower over an unofficial nudist beach on Martha's Vineyard.

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

It took 275 years and four burials to finally put the Mayflower’s most famous passenger to rest.

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

This abandoned radar station from the Cold War era now only broadcasts a seriously ominous air of isolation.

Plymouth's huge yet little-known memorial to the Pilgrims.

Haunted boulder in a front yard with a witch painted on it.

Small island science organization offers public the chance to participate in research.

Everyone's favorite neighbor is remembered fondly in this small-town church.

A pig barn converted into one of the most eclectic residences in Nantucket.

A memorial sculpture to heath hens stands on the spot where the last heath hen, Booming Ben, was last seen.

Artifacts of whaling, with both its perils and adventure, are housed in this museum in a former candle factory.

A 19th-century smallpox cemetery is being reclaimed by scrub forest and sand dunes.

The oldest platform carousel built in the United States continues to delight children in Martha’s Vineyard.

Final resting place of a pioneering scurvy researcher.

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

Marigolds, rosemary, Madonna lilies, and the Virgin’s Bower decorate this Massachusetts sacred garden.

The largest glacial erratic boulder on Cape Cod.

35,000 grape hyacinths flow like water down a garden hill.

This delicate museum is devoted to the art and industry that once supported Cape Cod's oldest town.

This Cape Cod museum exhibits what it claims is the only authenticated pirate treasure in the world.

Hidden behind a Target are pillows of cooled lava that formed at the bottom of a deep lake in the Mesozoic Era.