Places DyanneA Wants to Go

A renovated hotel is bringing new life to a nearly-abandoned mining town in Colorado.

This domed temple was built in a hidden cave mouth as a refuge for sinners seeking absolution.

An ancient stone wall formed by lava that was a frequent stop during funeral marches.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

A star-shaped fortress town fort built in the geometric model of the Renaissance utopian city.

The exact whereabouts of this surreal cabinet of curiosities are rarely the same place twice.

250-year-old farm now features sculptures, a petting zoo and a hippy-bazaar.

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

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

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

No one messes with the Massachusetts sacred cod, not this time...

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

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

A plaque memorializes the Boston location of one of the largest nightclub fires in history.

The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

Sacks of potatoes, made of cast stone, mark where the iconic potato sheds once stood along the river.

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

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

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

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

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