Places GracefulMarie Wants to Go

Named the fifth most beautiful building in America in 1885, this former courthouse boasts the best view in the Village.

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

Civil War-era Fort designed to withstand invasion and attack, with tricky traps called "murder holes."

Civil War Fort on an island in the Boston Harbor.

Visit a sweet shop selling one of the first candies ever made and sold in America.

A steampunk wonderland that preserves America's history of industrial innovation.

This small shop walked so America could run on Dunkin'.

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

One woman’s obsession gave birth to this lovely oddity at the Boston Public Library.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

The first bell ever cast in Boston was cast by Paul Revere...and sounded terrible.

The oldest landmark of Toronto is a testament to shifting sands.

A unique collection of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and everything in-between.

The Victorian-era greenhouse is stuffed with tropical plants, and open 365 days a year.

One of Canada's most incredible rare book collections holds hundreds of thousands of gorgeous tomes that the general public can touch.

A 98-room castle in the middle of Toronto that bankrupted a 19th century electricity multimillionaire.

A botanically themed auditorium blooms within the world’s last operating double-decker theater.

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.

A tunnel that brings more than a century of history to life from the deepest parts of the Niagara Gorge.

Learn about the last river many crossed to find freedom from slavery in the United States.