Places alessandralee Wants to Go

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

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

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.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

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

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

This upscale streetwear store is hidden behind a fake Snapple machine in the back of a deli.

A huge cathedral single-handedly constructed by one eccentric monk.

This historic Rhode Island mini-cemetery features a number of headstones run through with mysterious holes.

A peg-legged tightrope walker did not reveal his name as he was dying, and so he was buried as “Rope Walker."

Could this grave be the true resting place of legendary gunfighter "Doc" Holliday? Unclear.

The final resting place of a famous 19th-century murder victim whose identity is still a mystery.

A mysterious local has been dressing the child's grave for decades.

This moving cemetery sphere is a slowly rolling stone.

This small town Texas cemetery is said to be the burial site of a UFO pilot who crashed in the 1800s.

The mysterious headstone of an unidentified bank robber was seen visited, every year, by a woman in black.

The body of an unidentified woman, visible through a glass coffin, was discovered by accident.

This grave in a ghost town cemetery marks the death of a witch on a day that never happened.

Here lies Lilly E. Gray, an alleged "victim of the beast," but the reason long remained a mystery.

This deceptively salty lake looks like blushing pink lemonade.