Road-trip index
Ghost Towns near Boston
The survey records 1,033 vanished or historical sites within 100 miles of Boston, MA. Here's what's closest — and which places have full records worth planning a day around.
Charted towns within range
Vanished Place
New England's eeriest commons — cellar holes, legends, and boulders that give orders.
Vanished Place
Rhode Island's 'Lost City' — colonial cellar holes no road quite reaches.
Vanished Place
One of the four towns Boston drowned for the Quabbin — its common still mowed.
Vanished Place
A logged-out mountain town at the center of Vermont's disappearance lore.
Vanished Place
A White Mountains logging town the Saunders family owned outright.
Vanished Place
Connecticut's most infamous 'cursed' hamlet — closed to all visitors, full stop.
Closest surveyed sites — records pending
Every one of these is on the national atlas map — zoom into the Boston area to see them in place.