Places chrissyml Wants to Go

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

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

This tiny, painted door at the base of a tree stump has been a fixture of the Harvard University campus for decades.

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

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

Stay at this storybook estate, featuring Sir Henry Hudson Kitson's masterpiece "Gingerbread House."

On top of Gibbet Hill lie the ruins of a lavish turn-of-the-century estate that never quite came to be.

This miniature feudal castle was built on a whim to honor a US Navy pioneer.

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

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

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

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.

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

No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.

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

This former Masonic hall has been turned into an art project that uses even more metaphysical iconography.

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

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

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

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

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

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.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.