Places addisona Wants to Go

This study room in the New York Public Library saw the creation of one of contemporary America's greatest traitors.

Long-forgotten artifacts give incredible insight into New York's most glamorous hotel.

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

A little lighthouse in New York City, surrounded by mysterious stories of insanity-driven construction.

Captain America, Sub-Mariner, and the Human Torch were all born in this art deco Manhattan masterpiece.

The notorious headquarters of a corrupt political machine.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

Named the fifth most beautiful building in America in 1885, this former courthouse boasts the best view in the Village.

A hidden "place of interment for gentlemen."

The oldest house in Manhattan is now a museum that remembers the home's sordid history of scandals, vice-presidents, and ghosts.

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

An elaborate, hidden model train in the Needham Town Forest.

One of America's most historic homes also holds a startling literary legacy.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

A steampunk wonderland that preserves America's history of industrial innovation.

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

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

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

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

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

A historic London cemetery now serves as a nature park incorporating gravestones & memorial statues.

A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."