Places Gillian Wants to Go

The home of one of America's most wealthy industrialists is now a historic site that remembers a more decadent time in the country's history.

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

A small flooded ghost town with a few scattered structures remaining.

Jurassic Park—A Still Life.

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

The extensive collection of an amateur naturalist.

The largest island on the great salt lake is home to curious creatures and strange stories.

Largest man-made excavation on earth!

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

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

This Dutch-styled residential building was originally a cocoa company's World's Fair showpiece.

Civil War Fort on an island in the Boston Harbor.

For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.

Oldest church in the United States that is still in continuous use.

Site of the creepy house used in Lucio Fulci's "The House by the Cemetery."

This delicate museum is devoted to the art and industry that once supported Cape Cod's oldest town.

It took 275 years and four burials to finally put the Mayflower’s most famous passenger to rest.

An institution that preserves the history of institutionalization.

Sweet or salty, super hot or mixed into beer, this is the holy land for all things licorice.

What's that on the side of that building? Va Va Voom, it's Bettie!

Always a new use for this old building.

Essence of hound's tongue and tincture of bloodroot are just the tip of the herbalist iceberg at this beautiful, impressively-stocked apothecary.

Keeping Ballard's heritage alive with delicious, lightly battered Alaskan wild cod.