Places kitvishnu Wants to Go

No one messes with the Massachusetts sacred cod, not this time...

From bench to vandalism to art, this silly prank seat was funny enough to become permanent.

A spooky and decrepit mental health facility is slowly being replaced with newer digs.

The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg’s famous shark movie.

Locals purchased this abandoned quarry in order to make sure it continues to be overgrown.

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

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

It was an experiment to prove that glacial boulders and rocks can be used in constructions and dwelling.

This historic graveyard monument is dedicated to a tragic victim of witch trial hysteria.

Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.

Shelves covered in dozens of coffee bean varieties fill this North End institution.

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

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

A stunning garden filled with fantastical environmental folk art and sculptures.

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

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

"Mock all and sundry things, but leave the saints alone."

The Mysterious Witch Bonney, a haunted statue in an old industrial city.

On top of Gibbet Hill lie the ruins of a lavish turn-of-the-century estate that never quite came to be.

Naturally formed white marble arch housed in an abandoned marble quarry from the 1800s.

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

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

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.

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