Places Isabella Connor Wants to Go

An independent bookstore and press with a large collection of local and English-language literature.

Abandoned Italianate architecture on the coast of Maine.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

The summer home and later final residence of acclaimed American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens.

One of America's first spies started out as a teacher in this little red one-room schoolhouse.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

A plaque immortalizes the spot where the early American spy said his famous last words: "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."

A 12,000-year-old bog boasting rare plants and fauna.

The sprawling, eccentric estate of Ames and Ames, a brilliant botanist, and a genius inventor and artist.

Former abode of notable poet, complete with literary references and stories of ghosts.

A tribute to the couples who brave long periods of separation during wartime.

A former zoo turned public park, where visitors can hang out in the old animal cages.

A short walk through the woods will take you to an unusual flat hill top, used by the Shakers for outdoor worship.

This historic cemetery is filled with markers that look more like candy than was likely intended.

America's oldest archaeological site or a muddled case of wishful thinking.

She become one of the first women to serve in the United States military by secretly dressing like a man.

This picturesque abandoned home is rumored to be a spite house.

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

A quaint museum nestled in a former hub of Irish moss harvesting.

A Medieval Water Tower in the Heart of Massachusetts.

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

A New England ghost town features a trail of boulders etched with intriguing life lessons.

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

The oldest surviving wood-frame building in North America is still in the family.