Places basil111 Wants to Go

Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

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

Burial ground for revolutionary veterans attracts tall tales, ghost hunters, not enough historians and preservationists.

The final resting place of a suffragist author.

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

This cemetery is home to numerous granite headstones that are works of art unto themselves.

The haunting history of a little girl lost.

The ruins of a Massachusetts prison farm can still be found crumbling the woods of a state park.

The final resting place of a man who claimed that he could tame even the mightiest of bears.

This historic home and museum celebrates the life story of the female founder of the American Red Cross.

This mysterious artificial cave has long puzzled New Englanders.

A technicolor place of worship for Elevationists.

A square stone tomb marks the spot where six men were killed while holding a service in Caldoris Wood.

These ancient ruins include a stadium dating back to 400 BC.

The arboretum whose marshy soil sucked up the dreams of housing developers.

This lake in the Cascades lives up to its name, disappearing down a hole every spring.

An eerie, decaying ghost town destined to fade into the forest.

The tomb of Increase Mather and his son Cotton, influential colonial ministers obsessed with the occult.

A 19th-century smallpox cemetery is being reclaimed by scrub forest and sand dunes.

Celebrated in poem, this tiny hidden cemetery has a big and grisly history.

Local legend says there's treasure hidden within its crowded graveyard.

Local legend says the remains of Father Christmas lie within the medieval grounds.

On the Irish coast, 18 members of the Howard family are eternally resting in an Egyptian pyramid.