Places wednesday Wants to Go

On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.

A defunct all-girls college which may be the resting place of H.P. Lovecraft's real-life Necronomicon.

This tall Massachusetts folly got its name thanks to all of the purple prose its vistas inspired.

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

This roadside attraction attracts kids with dinosaurs before blindsiding them with geology.

Hut with supplies for shipwreck survivors.

According to legend, Bob Dylan sneaks in twice a year to eat dinner with Jack.

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

The homestead of American patriot John Adams.

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

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

Grave of the man allegedly responsible for a series of infamous murders in Boston in the 1960s.

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

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

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

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

Massachusetts memorial to murder victim Elizabeth Short near the spot where she was born.

The sprawling, eccentric estate of Ames and Ames, a brilliant botanist, and a genius inventor and artist.

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

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

A mysterious collection of stones stand outside a small New England town.

This historic graveyard monument is dedicated to a tragic victim of witch trial hysteria.

The macabre graffiti spectacle in a quarry in a Massachusetts forest reservation.

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