Places kristasansonee Wants to Go

The building that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House."

This cavernous abandoned marble mine is popular with ice skaters in the winter.

137 graves holding New England's earliest residents.

This former prison now houses a lovely library devoted to Quebec's oft-maligned English-speaking history.

The skyline of Montreal includes the silhouette of an unexpected fruit-shaped Canadian staple.

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.

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

The highest point in Connecticut was incorrectly memorialized before surveyors discovered the actual spot.

The world's largest public collection of PEZ memorabilia.

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

South Philadelphia is home to Keith Haring's only surviving in situ collaborative public mural.

An unexpected canine grave atop a mountain.

Yo, Adrian!

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.