Places garyrusssmith Wants to Go

This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.

The tomb of Increase Mather and his son Cotton, influential colonial ministers obsessed with the occult.

A collection of intricate sculptures so small they have to be seen through a microscope.

A two-way chairlift system between Zugliget and the highest point in the city.

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

The remnants of a Gilded Age elegance preserved in the middle of a stark modern tower.

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

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

Built in 1821 using rooms from another estate, the Phillips House is the only historic home on scenic Chestnut Street open to the public.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

A Buddhist retreat built on more than 100 acres of California Redwood forest.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

Over two centuries old and counting, Madrid's massive botanical garden contains one of Europe's only desert environments.

In the past, Renaissance sex workers were encouraged to entice customers on this bridge.

A new sculpture calls attention to climate change in the centuries-old city it threatens.

The middle finger of modernity.