Places Auroratorealis Wants to Go

The only surviving building of historic West Boylston, which was flooded to create the Wachusett Reservoir.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

This sculpture memorializes the town's connection to the famous horror author Edgar Allan Poe.

A very big rock just plopped down in the New England woods.

This quaint mortuary chapel hides a stunning Celtic Revival and Art Nouveau interior.

This classic red schoolhouse is said to have been where Mary and her little lamb went to school.

The grave of William Rosenberg, founder of Dunkin Donuts (now Dunkin') with shops coast to coast in the US and 42 countries worldwide.

A New England curiosity cabinet, one hundred years on.

The winter home of thousands of beautiful snow geese and sandhill cranes.

The ancient tomb acts as a calendar that keeps perfect time.

The inscribed stone at Kilnasaggart is a remnant from nearly a millennium ago.

Sculptures, jams, and the wild west collide at this folksy retreat.

East meets West in this Japanese-style garden featuring plants native to Maine’s Mount Desert Island.

Maine's only authentic torri gate celebrates a longstanding international relationship that started with the rescue of four sailors.

This tombstone marks the spot where the legendary British spy met his end.

These commemorative stones honor a young woman born in captivity.

The monument dedicated to Phineas Gage in the town where his accident happened.

A 60-foot-tall tower provides unparalleled views of the southern Green Mountains.

Since 1969, this restaurant has served up dishes typical of Istanbul's Greek diaspora.

A burial ground of rusting metal grave markers.

Working wool mill used as the exterior for the mill in the 1990 horror film "Graveyard Shift."

This Maine bridge may be the last wire-supported bridge of its type in the world.

The location of the Bridge of Death and the Gorge of Eternal Peril in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail."