Places dawnrfifer Wants to Go

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

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

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

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

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

Vikings and Evangelicals have both had a hand in this replica medieval church.

Pre-Nazi swastikas adorn the sculpted pachyderms flanking this brewhouse portal.

Where the oil industry began.

An architect transformed this abandoned cement factory into his castle-like workshop.

This Victorian marvel of engineering and artistic prowess is nicknamed the "Cathedral of Steam."

A frozen relic of Seattle's hydroelectric boom is now a teaching facility for future engineers.

This abandoned oil depot produces world's longest echo in a manmade structure.

A fantastic array of trays and cables once whisked books over to the Capitol at 600 feet per minute.

Few would expect the world's oldest preserved oil refinery to be found in Sweden.

Great Britain's only hat-making museum.

This rusting remnant of the local herring industry is being given a second life.

Impressive mining ruins overlook a spectacular view of Ireland's Copper Coast.

These 17th-century mummies are no longer naturally preserved, but remain on display today.

Naturally preserved bodies are eerily staged throughout the crypt in varying poses.

This embalmed man is one of the best preserved mummies from the Canary Islands.

Hundreds of mummies in a silent room, some with eerily pained expressions preserved on their faces.

A magical and peaceful ruined Cistercian abbey in what is now southern Belgium.

Twelve natural mummies are displayed in the crypt of this former monastery school.

What looks like a simple quaint estate in rural Pennsylvania was in the 18th century home to a small monastic community.