Places waywardwillard Wants to Go

The first bell ever cast in Boston was cast by Paul Revere...and sounded terrible.

A mysterious stone embedded at the base of a historic Boston building.

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

No one messes with the Massachusetts sacred cod, not this time...

An easy-to-miss garden in Boston's North End honors the mother of JFK and others who lost children in WWII.

One of the last remaining World War II Victory Gardens in the U.S. is quietly growing across from Fenway Park.

This massive tea kettle was once a promotional stunt for the Oriental Teashop.

This giant Boston statue of Mary is standing on a globe to show her power over the universe.

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

This ambitious father and son team reigned supreme over the North End, and witches, for many years.

From bench to vandalism to art, this silly prank seat was funny enough to become permanent.

Shelves covered in dozens of coffee bean varieties fill this North End institution.

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

"Mock all and sundry things, but leave the saints alone."

The tomb of Increase Mather and his son Cotton, influential colonial ministers obsessed with the occult.

Ice cream stand, snack bar, and time capsule of milk conveyance.

The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.

This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

Narrowest house in Boston.