Places Bseeker Wants to Go

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

A rare 16-bedroom Qing Dynasty house re-erected on the campus of the Peabody Essex Museum. 

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

Maine's oldest diner also happens to win acclaim for its elevated comfort food.

This wooded grove of beautiful hand-built stone grottos is a hidden gem within a shuttered Franciscan monastery.

This shack nestled in a 120-acre forest of maple trees in Mont-Rigaud is a wonderland of sugary syrup.

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

Don't get it twisted: This is the oldest pretzel bakery in the United States.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

A museum cafe showcases Native American dishes and indigenous ingredients from across the Western Hemisphere.

A long-abandoned provincial prison left to crumble in the frigid air of Ontario.

An elegant German-style resort overlooking the Potomoc River.

The Midwest's reigning king of surplus stores is full of nothing you need and everything you want.

The mastermind behind this palatial hotel perished on the Titanic weeks before its grand opening.

This inexpensive lodging house was once a prison notorious for its inhumane practices.

A rare venue to buy specialty maps.

The remains of a paranoid inventor's hidden workshop lie in beautiful ruins amidst a Canadian park.

Canada's subterranean Cold War museum has doubled as a movie set.

All that remains of this former mill town is a ranger station and some crumbling buildings.

The first outlet of Canada's biggest fast-food franchise has been slinging doughnuts since 1964.

This mid-19th century chapel is a tiny treasure for weary travelers.

Take an underground boat ride through a former hydraulic raceway that was built in the late 19th century.

The Painted Ladies of Ontario aren’t your average beach homes.

Legend says that this short Canadian tunnel still holds the dying screams of a girl who burned alive.