Places alessandralee Wants to Go

The grave of the first dolphin to play Flipper is located at the Dolphin Research Center.

Named from the Spanish for “beautiful woods,” this public cemetery is spread across 29 acres of moss-draped oaks.

This oceanfront 1920s house museum offers visitors historic art and rare plants across five distinct ecosystems.

A tiny, unassuming park in Tampa that belongs to the Republic of Cuba.

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

This historic folk museum celebrates the attention to detail that makes America great.

Cheap art and political theater in Vermont.

Dispersed across 45-acres, 39 structures house a massive collection celebrating American Folk Art.

This roadside stand claims to be the world's smallest bookstore.

This massive solar system model is sprawled out across Maine's suburban wilderness.

America's oldest archaeological site or a muddled case of wishful thinking.

A former copper mine which became a truly unsuccessful prison.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

One of the smallest churches in the United States is located along the side of the road in a residential neighborhood.

Some big-name visitors have patronized this small-town library named for an oil man's daughter.

Take a step inside the picturesque studio of America’s most renowned sculptor.

A three-piece musical sculpture installed between the subway tracks at Kendall Station near MIT.

Herman Melville wrote 'Moby Dick' in this landmark 18th-century house surrounded by farmland.

Last church of this militaristic WWII style.

This beautiful architectural gem was the first waste treatment facility in Boston.

This memorial garden is the final resting place of many beloved pets including that of a famous explorer.

A spooky and decrepit mental health facility is slowly being replaced with newer digs.

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

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