Places DeAndrea Cherry Wants to Go

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

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

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

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

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

This bronze sculpture was inspired by a photograph of Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife embracing after he won the Nobel Peace Prize.

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

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

This Seattle joint serves food inside an old train car once used by FDR.

An ice cream parlor chain that caters to vegans and pinball fans equally.

A bookstore with an entire room dedicated to damaged and forlorn comic books.

A comprehensive collection of bonsai set in a beautiful campus.

Thomas Dambo's troll sculpture wears a crown with birdhouses on his head.

A bike being "eaten" by a tree is the real Vashon legend behind popular children's book, "Red Ranger Came Calling."

At the most northwestern point of the contiguous United States lies a trail leading through an ancient forest to stunning cliff-side vistas and massive oceanside caves.

Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.