Places flblom Wants to Go

The building that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House."

The risqué mixed-media sculptures are supposedly a metaphor for Czech politics.

Cheap art and political theater in Vermont.

Spend the night inside a two-story elephant villa.

Bring your hiking shoes, wool socks, and thermal underwear for a stay in these cozy forest huts.

This chilly Canadian hotel has a four-month lifespan due to the unusual material it's made of.

This cavernous abandoned marble mine is popular with ice skaters in the winter.

Two distinctive homes on a New England village green look like a couple of frosted wedding cakes.

The house where Rudyard Kipling wrote 'The Jungle Book' is also the location of the first tennis court in Vermont.

This rare polygonal meeting house is rumored to be built in a circle so that the devil has nowhere to hide.

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels, scores of people have died on its slopes.

The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.

A treasure trove of rare and fine fabrics from around the world.

A forest wonderland caused by Burlington, Vermont's aggressive southwestern winds.

The world’s largest underground marble quarry is hiding in Vermont.

Driftwood dinosaurs lurk within trees covered in a rainbow array of avian abodes.

This "common-as-dirt" museum celebrates the glory of normalcy.

A massive sustainable farm designed by the mastermind behind Central Park.

A gravity-defying "devil's bridge" that has a surprising architectural feature for its stability.

The final resting place of New England's last "vampire."

The mass grave of a heroic Revolutionary War regiment sits below an empty lot near the Gowanus Canal.

This ancient village and its adjoining cemetery have a beautiful history of death and remembrance.

Beautiful hillside Vermont cemetery with amazing funerary art.

Tour the world's largest deep-hole dimension granite quarry, where you can view the plant where gravestones are made and roll a ball down the outdoor granite bowling alley.