Places Laura Andersen Wants to Go

Where beer lovers can literally immerse themselves in beer.

A tropical paradise just a short trip from the opera house is filled with beautiful winged creatures.

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

The sign at the garden gate reads: “These Plants Can Kill.”

Hundreds of secret cabinets built into the walls of legendary poisoner's private work room.

American revolutionaries and British soldiers alike are buried here in the fourth-ever cemetery in Boston.

Artifacts of whaling, with both its perils and adventure, are housed in this museum in a former candle factory.

The homestead of American patriot John Adams.

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

An old trolley bridge was converted into a breathtaking garden bursting with colorful flowers.

"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."

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

Experience the hysteria of a 17th century witch hunt through goofy reenactments and wax dummies that should probably be burned at the stake.

The walkable ruins of an 19th century hotel, destroyed in a horse cremation gone wrong.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

One of the most scenic falls in Massachusetts has a history of death and grim legend.

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

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

During Prohibition, the U.S. Congress had an "official" bootlegger, with his own Capitol Hill office.

The national park was once a plantation estate.

The discovery site of the "Capitalsaurus," the official dinosaur of Washington, D.C.

When it opened during the final years of the embargo, all the drinks and cigars were free.

There's a crumbling old mansion inside the Smithsonian National Zoo.