Places chasfranklin Wants to Go

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

The final resting place of the first documented Chinese person in the United States lies in a Boston cemetery.

One of the few remaining monuments dedicated to South Boston's Irish heritage.

In the early 1800s, surgery was also a show.

Come for the pastrami, stay for the million-dollar art.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

Twenty-three trees, each paired with a basalt stone, line a street in Chelsea, continuing an urban project started by German Fluxus artist Joseph Beuys.

A psychological self-portrait in the form of a giant, segmented head.

Owned by Native American women, this brewery is a celebration of indigenous culture in the American Southwest.

A museum devoted entirely to the rattlesnakes and snake-related art.

This Pringle-shaped ledge makes for the perfect photo op.

The Giant Lemon of Lemon Grove.

This San Diego museum is dedicated to preserving women’s historic achievements.

The tiniest tiki room in San Diego.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

A magnificent, reportedly haunted mansion built for a composer by Spiritualists.

This historic graveyard was partially paved over to create a streetcar line.

A couple turned their front yard into an artistic masterpiece.

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

The oldest playground in America.

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

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

This small museum is an eccentric shrine to boyhood in the 1960s.

The eccentric mansion of one of the most popular horror authors of modern times.