Places Gillian Wants to Go

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

Narrowest house in Boston.

This ambitious father and son team reigned supreme over the North End, and witches, for many years.

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

A Norwegian church that was built before Wisconsin was even a state has been entirely moved to a nicer spot.

Triangular House built on a leafy residential street in St. Paul.

An amazing collection of sculptures and art.

Gambling, boozing, and yodeling animals cover the walls of this dive bar cum natural history museum.

A town filled with hot chocolate, dazzling lights, and lots of Christmas cheer.

The titular fictional logger only inhabits this otherwise historically focussed museum via a piece of fiberglass kitsch.

17,400 lbs., 12 feet in diameter, and 29 years in the making.

A butcher shop in Minneapolis has all the meats and cheeses you’d expect from any of its kind—except that all the products are vegan.

An old soap company building now houses one of Minneapolis’s oldest independent non-profit art galleries.

This taxidermic smorgasbord was co-created by an artist poached from the Museum of Natural History.

This iconic water tower and failed bandstand is open for panoramic views once a year.

Home to the Amorphophallus titanum "Corpse Flower," which is among the largest flowers in the world and also smells powerfully of rotting flesh when in bloom.

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.