Places WhimsyCat03 Wants to Go

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

One of New Jersey's oldest surviving buildings still bears the mark of our former British overlords.

Marie told fortunes from her small stand on the Boardwalk for decades, including to a young Bruce Springsteen who would busk outside her booth.

World War II bunker still standing on the New Jersey beach.

A storefront museum in Asbury Park honoring the Jersey Shore’s deep history of mystery—including the Jersey Devil.

What was once a true peninsula has now been filled in, causing the water to recede and leaving many streetside "waterfronts" and landlocked "islands."

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

This area was once known for being a lawless haven for rough-and-tumble sailors, earning the maritime-themed nickname "the black sea."

Civil War-era Fort designed to withstand invasion and attack, with tricky traps called "murder holes."

A lighthouse on a diminutive island was one of the first of its kind to guide seamen home.

One of two lighted lanterns hung in the church belfry on the eve of the Revolutionary War to warn that the British were on their way.

Rumored to have tormented a family in the late 1960s, this toy now resides in a quiet little oddities shop.

One of the indelible moments of the American Revolution took place at this location.

The Atlantis of Cape Cod reemerges during the lowest of tides.

Civil War Fort on an island in the Boston Harbor.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

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

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

Naturally formed white marble arch housed in an abandoned marble quarry from the 1800s.

Located just behind a quiet residential neighborhood, this is ground zero for the Salem witchcraft hysteria of 1692.

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

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

A museum dedicated to the quirky and colorful world created by Springfield's favorite son.