Places kissam Wants to Go

The former home of Norway's greatest romantic composer.

Monuments don't get much more metal than these three giant viking swords planted in a Nordic hill.

At the very tippity-top of Europe is a cliff from which you can view the midnight sun.

The life of one of FDR's possible mistresses is preserved in her palatial Hudson Valley mansion.

This art center is way beyond your average pumpkin-carving operation.

The world's largest kaleidoscope, designed by a 1960s psychedelic artist.

For a buck, students can snag freshly picked apples grown in the university orchards.

Pluto is still considered a planet in Ithaca, New York.

The library of every book lover's dreams.

The first American home of the isolated, egalitarian religion has a trove of Shaker architecture and artifacts.

America’s oldest community theater, this Boston club has been in operation since 1877.

Tragedy on Little Brewster Island memorialized.

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

These whimsical works of art tell the story of the city's past and present.

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

A small chapel celebrating the spiritual bond between dogs and humans.

This large cemetery is known as the museum of granite sculptures.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

Reclaimed by nature, the ruins of Doodletown, New York are remnants of a town consumed by a state park.

Six peaceful acres in a residential neighborhood dedicated to art and peace.

The largest Buddha statue in the Western Hemisphere is just 50 miles north of NYC.