Places gardenglories Wants to Go

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

Before its closure in 2002, this South Dakota mine was the largest and deepest gold mine in Western Hemisphere.

This towering wooden Sasquatch was carved with a chainsaw.

The oldest extant wooden jail in South Dakota and possibly the United States. 

The empty town of Scenic, South Dakota, is owned by a church in the Philippines.

A six-ton, 12-foot-tall concrete prairie dog is touted as the largest in the world.

The deserted railroad town had a last gasp as a ghost town attraction before being abandoned for good.

Once a thriving town of 100, Argonne was abandoned around 1970.

The final resting place of a circus performer who went by the pseudonym "General Tom Thumb."

Connecticut's shot tower is near the end of its life.

Markets and festivals take place at this former home of a 1,500-seat theater, which burned to the ground in 2019.

The last vessel built by a submarine pioneer stands as a monument to his legacy.

A tiny memorial for the year the Connecticut River almost destroyed New England.

These beautiful garden buildings are among the oldest surviving greenhouses in the United States.

Once the largest public hospital for the mentally ill was also surrounded by controversy.

The headquarters of one of the world’s longest-running humor magazines bears a noticeable resemblance to a head wearing a Prussian helmet.

This faux Greek Revival mansion is a clever optical illusion tucked into a Beacon Hill alley.

This historic sculpture from the 16th century is even older than the city of Boston.

Dedicated to nine marines from Massachusetts who perished during the Beirut bombings.

An easy-to-miss garden in Boston's North End honors the mother of JFK and others who lost children in WWII.

This historic hotel was once home to Henry David Thoreau and rumored to be haunted by ghosts of fallen soldiers from the American Revolution.

The Wright Tavern is possibly the most important building in Concord Massachusetts to the American Revolution.

One of two lighted lanterns hung in the church belfry on the eve of the Revolutionary War to warn that the British were on their way.

Historic house still contains bullet holes from an overlooked battle of the American Revolution.