Places wintermuteway Wants to Go

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

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

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

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

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

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!

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

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

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.

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

The last living thing to come out of the rubble after 9/11 is now a symbol of hope and resilience.

The first piece of public art dedicated to LGBT rights.

From this desk Al Hirschfeld drew his influential caricatures of the 20th century's Broadway stars.

This lavish room in a New York City mansion is a rare relic from the end of the Gilded Age.

This iconic tattoo shop has its own onsite museum with artifacts from the early history of modern body art.

The fanciest public restroom in New York City boasts fresh flowers, art, and a classical music soundtrack.

This Dutch Colonial home is the oldest remaining farmhouse in Manhattan.

A trove of century-old litho stones from the Puck Building's printing days were discovered behind a cellar wall, and are now hanging in the store.

The origins of midtown Manhattan's anachronistic wooden farmhouse remain a mystery.

A Gothic-style abode built to accommodate the church's three resident peacocks.

A museum collection honoring the long history of the FDNY is held in a disused Manhattan fire house.

This small New York museum celebrates the mountainous artwork of a Russian mystic.