Places bluestargirl Wants to Go

A Spanish-style estate that has traded black ties for rock concerts.

In terms of history and architecture, this is one of the most remarkable cemeteries in the world.

Go inside the house that inspired L. M. Montgomery to create one of literature's most beloved heroines.

For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.

Chewing gum tycoon's memorial lies perched over wife's botanical gardens on Santa Catalina Island.

A herd of 150 bison live on California's Santa Catalina Island and are at the heart of an ongoing debate between environmental protection and economic expansion.

From bench to vandalism to art, this silly prank seat was funny enough to become permanent.

The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

The Bloemen Route, or “Flower Route”, stretches 25 miles through prime Dutch tulip country as a result of “tulip mania,” the world’s first economic bubble.

This industrial area was the dumping ground for massive amounts of trash, some of which washes up as tiny bits of sea glass.

A masterpiece of LGBT art has been restored in what may now be the most valuable restroom in America.

The thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

A popular winter vacation destination for migrating monarch butterflies.

Tragedy on Little Brewster Island memorialized.

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.

The infamous Boston Mob ran rackets from an office here in the 1970s.

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

A lovers' beach, tucked below the surface of the island, provides a safe haven for romance.

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.

A daybeacon pyramid is about all that's left of this island that is said to have sunk due to a pirate's curse.

Ming Dynasty necropolis raided during the Cultural Revolution.