Places Gillian Wants to Go

This pebble beach is so beautiful that taking its rocks is against the law.

A Studio on the Fringes of the Northeast Art District.

Direct, creative challenge to Mother Nature's winter wrath.

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An unoccupied lighthouse encased in layers of ice from the waters of Lake Erie.

Quirky castle designed by the American actor best known for portraying Sherlock Holmes on stage.

Artifacts of whaling, with both its perils and adventure, are housed in this museum in a former candle factory.

A simple Colonial home with a past haunted by death and madness.

Restaurant in a 1741 farmhouse that touts the story of its haunting on its menus.

Friction between grains of sand cause a curious "singing" sound.

The Mysterious Witch Bonney, a haunted statue in an old industrial city.

New England's "Witches of Eastwick" locations, in all of their quaint white churched glory.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

Memorial of the Salem witchcraft hysteria in the town of Danvers, where it all began.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

One of America's most historic homes also holds a startling literary legacy.

The first home of the doomed aviator Amelia Earhart.

A historic house in St. Louis was plagued by a series of suicides committed by family members involved in a successful brewery.

An engraved boulder marks the spot where Patsy Cline's life ended in a plane crash.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.

These mansions date back to Chicago's days as a brewer's paradise.

Recognized the world over as the home of the McCallisters in the 1990 movie "Home Alone."