Places wilde Wants to Go

Historic Hull Street was actually the first street with a proper name in the Boston area.

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

One philanthropist's extensive collection of knick-knacks and curiosities is now a public museum of oddity.

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

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

This mysterious artificial cave has long puzzled New Englanders.

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

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

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

Resonating tubes make music from highway overpass.

This is the house that spite built.

The railroad tunnel nicknamed the "Bloody Pit" for taking the lives of hundreds during its construction.

The thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.

The ruins of a Massachusetts prison farm can still be found crumbling the woods of a state park.

A New England ghost town features a trail of boulders etched with intriguing life lessons.

Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.

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

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

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

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

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

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

Hidden in Central Park's Ramble is a troublesome cave buried just beneath the surface.

Cryptic messages embedded in the New York City sidewalk.