Places HulaGirloftheEast Wants to Go

The mighty room where the poet spent most of her life is available to rent for an hour or two.

One of the last remaining World War II Victory Gardens in the U.S. is quietly growing across from Fenway Park.

A tiny monument to the classic American candy.

The thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

The kind of mixed-up place that drives archaeologists crazy.

The Connecticut village named for its subterranean thunder.

With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.

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

250-year-old farm now features sculptures, a petting zoo and a hippy-bazaar.

The strange, ritualistic-seeming 100+ year old basement of a New Hampshire undergrad society.

It's not a typo, now say it five times fast!

The house where Rudyard Kipling wrote 'The Jungle Book' is also the location of the first tennis court in Vermont.

The hill that gave the Massachusett tribe, and later the state, its name.

From economic backbone of a community to deadly diving hole, these former stone quarries are now a park for rock climbers and graffiti artists.

Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.

Overgrown ruins of a turn of the century island fort that sees very few visitors.

A disastrous shipwreck and a tragic love story.

Trash escaped from a landfill to fill beaches with all kinds of treasure.

The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.

This upscale streetwear store is hidden behind a fake Snapple machine in the back of a deli.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

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

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.