Places waywardwillard Wants to Go

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

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

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

One of the now-less-hidden floral gems of the "Emerald Necklace."

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

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

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

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

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

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.

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

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

This shrine to bovine consumption and all things fast food is a slice of culinary history both rare and well done.

The timeworn "Yankee Stadium" of the fastest game in the world isn't going anywhere.

The largest freshwater lake in the Florida Keys.

The final resting place of the great escape artist, where some still gather to wait for his escape from death.