Places ashley8918 Wants to Go

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

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

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

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.

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

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

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.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

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

England's oldest surviving hedge maze has been confusing visitors for over 300 years.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.

Banksy gives themself artistic license with this piece of London street art.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

One of the world's largest collections of pathological specimens.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

This historic building displays the remains of a victim of the devastating 14th-century plague.

Remnants of cells from the most notorious London prison may lie in the basement of a rare Victorian Gin Palace.