Places alphalabovi Wants to Go

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.

No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

The walkable ruins of an 19th century hotel, destroyed in a horse cremation gone wrong.

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

One of the most scenic falls in Massachusetts has a history of death and grim legend.

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

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

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.

Stumps of an Ice Age forest, visible only at low tide.

One of 100 “Whaling Wall" murals painted in 13 different countries by a renowned marine life artist.

Once the future of underwater combat, this old sub is now open for visitors to muck around in.

Final resting place of the two women killed on a small island off the coast of New Hampshire.

A pair of black granite tails dive into a sea of grass in landlocked Vermont.

Cryptid lake monster honored with its own monument.

Stand at the center of this lakefront sundial, and you'll become part of the timepiece.

Scary metal statues adorn some of the signature buildings of Burlington, Vermont.

This 38-drawer structure claims the superlative title, but it isn't the world's only giant filing cabinet.

A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.

The iconic Chicago sculpture hides a beautiful and easily overlooked plaque on the backside.

Fragments of architectural wonders from around the globe are embedded in the newspaper building's walls.

Once at the center of U.S. finance, the historic Trading Room was meticulously recreated piece by piece and rebuilt in the Art Institute.

This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.