Places caitlinhug7 Wants to Go

35,000 grape hyacinths flow like water down a garden hill.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

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

A New England ghost town features a trail of boulders etched with intriguing life lessons.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

The walkable ruins of an 19th century hotel, destroyed in a horse cremation gone wrong.

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

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

One of the now-less-hidden floral gems of the "Emerald Necklace."

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

Once known as the Illinois Asylum for the Incurable Insane.

The oldest house in Galena, Illinois, now is a reminder of when this city was the world's lead mining capital.

Pumpkin-like gargoyles and grotesques peer down from the rooftop of this unassuming apartment building in Illinois.

The oldest experimental corn field in America is still creating better ways to grow crops.

In the Shawnee National Forest, amazing rock formations peer through the treeline.

Now nearly abandoned, Kaskaskia was once the capital of Illinois and one of the most important towns on the upper Mississippi.