Places amarionknh Wants to Go

Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.

Trash escaped from a landfill to fill beaches with all kinds of treasure.

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

This tiny, painted door at the base of a tree stump has been a fixture of the Harvard University campus for decades.

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

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.

35,000 grape hyacinths flow like water down a garden hill.

Over 50 whirling pools left behind from the glacial age.

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

The Mysterious Witch Bonney, a haunted statue in an old industrial city.

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

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

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

The island where one woman reigned as a "queen" over 30-odd Japanese soldiers who refused to believe that WWII had ended.

On the Pakistan-India border the militaries perform an elaborate theater of aggression each and every night.

Remnants of an exploded schooner and wrecked submarines form a breakwater.

This museum tells the story of lake dwellers from 4000 BC to 850 BC, replete with stilt houses and goats.

The history of German architecture is explored across this fairy-scale mini-city.

This painted Lego bridge is the product of over a century of locomotive history.

Money made from smuggling sugar helped create this wondrous rock maze in honor of the Prussian Queen Louise.