Places cassandraprickett Wants to Go

A mysterious collection of stones stand outside a small New England town.

Locals purchased this abandoned quarry in order to make sure it continues to be overgrown.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

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

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

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

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

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

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

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

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

A cave dug by a man directed by ghosts to find pirate treasure.

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

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

"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."

The first newspaper printed by an expeditionary force was published in this colonial mansion.

A single light illuminates one man's overshadowed contributions to street lamp history.

An unusual library of dead things at the Rhode Island School of Design.

You can spend the night as an honorary lighthouse keeper in this quaint, historic beacon.

A 60-room castle constructed by a horse-racing heir.