Places chrissyml Wants to Go

A collection of full-size movie monsters opened to the public.

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

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

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

This upscale streetwear store is hidden behind a fake Snapple machine in the back of a deli.

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

This historic mini-suspension bridge was swept away once but is now here to stay.

A 12,000-year-old bog boasting rare plants and fauna.

A New Hampshire grave with a grudge.

This lovely little pond is named after the hundreds of soldiers' corpses that were rolled into the waters during the French-Indian War.

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

A discreet little stairway on St. Nicholas Avenue leads to a quaint and unexpected cobblestone street of 19th century wooden rowhouses.

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

New York City's only preserved family home from the 19th century.

Cryptic messages embedded in the New York City sidewalk.

Everyone from Mark Twain to Teddy Roosevelt has a pipe hanging from the walls of this historic chophouse.

The name of this tiny pocket park tucked between two buildings on Manhattan's Upper West Side is Latin for its location: "seventy-one."

A hidden "place of interment for gentlemen."

A hyper-luxurious, 12,000- square foot home might be buried beneath Queens, still waiting to protect you from nuclear missiles.

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

This wall on a street corner in Lower Manhattan has been a blank canvas for a rotation of renowned artists since the 1980s.

You can still ride this 100-year-old work of art in Brooklyn's largest public park.

This iconic tattoo shop has its own onsite museum with artifacts from the early history of modern body art.

A charming "tea atelier" hidden away in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.