Places Laura Andersen Wants to Go

The only place for a truly presidential dram.

The only certified Trappist brewery outside of Europe hides in the central Massachusetts hills.

Time travel with sweets across history at this research-based candy store.

An abandoned church gets a second life as a massive beer hall and event space.

The extensive relics of an ancient Roman and Phoenician fish processing plant hide in a town park.

This surreal-looking tree pruned more than 1,000 years ago is still producing olives for oil.

A complimentary beverage is offered to the bodega's resident rodents every day.

Hidden behind a wall, Spanish nuns distribute their signature sweets on a revolving tray.

It took 275 years and four burials to finally put the Mayflower’s most famous passenger to rest.

The sea urchin sculpture is an unusual commemoration of a New England town's seafaring history.

This museum dedicated to local history is housed in the state's oldest surviving fire station.

Built to bless whalers before their voyages, this Massachusetts church now features a ship-shaped pulpit.

For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.

This museum shines a light on the true Pilgrim experience in North America.

The island home of an unlucky whaling captain whose story inspired a great American novel.

A 19th-century smallpox cemetery is being reclaimed by scrub forest and sand dunes.

The former home of the oldest nail maker in the United States was built on the ashes of a mill burned by the British.

This beautiful Cape Cod beach offers dazzling views and an interesting historical footnote.

35,000 grape hyacinths flow like water down a garden hill.

Hundreds of personalized inscribed planks make up this historic boardwalk.

Perhaps the most spectacular grotto along the Algarve coastline.

This unassuming chapel in Portugal plays host to a ghoulish collection of bones.

The extravagance of Portugal’s "Pink Palace" resulted in a noble title being awarded to its owner.

Dead weights honor the dead of Portugal's fishing industry.