Places atozenith Wants to Go

A charming "tea atelier" hidden away in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

Located off a bustling strip, a silent teahouse employs workers with hearing- or speech-related disabilities.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

Grab a cuppa at England's first and only domestic tea plantation.

The last standing example of an ancient district's teatime tradition.

On the cliffs of São Jorge in the Azores stand the remains of a lighthouse that was struck by a series of earthquakes.

One of few vertical lava tubes in the world accessible by foot.

One artist's collection of homemade handicrafts doubles as a monument to 20th-century material culture.

From economic backbone of a community to deadly diving hole, these former stone quarries are now a park for rock climbers and graffiti artists.

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.

This mysterious artificial cave has long puzzled New Englanders.

This evocatively named natural crevasse was created by a torrent of water that smashed right through a granite deposit.

A collection of full-size movie monsters opened to the public.

Visit a sweet shop selling one of the first candies ever made and sold in America.

A cave dug by a man directed by ghosts to find pirate treasure.

Experience the hysteria of a 17th century witch hunt through goofy reenactments and wax dummies that should probably be burned at the stake.

An abandoned coal mine reached by a steep hike.

Hikers can still stroll beneath the long conveyer of this abandoned mining facility hidden in a West Virginia river gorge.

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

A more than 260-year-old crypt built on Boston's oldest English burial ground.

This railroad tunnel was once the longest in Massachusetts.