Places lucasstrittmatter Wants to Go

American bison herd descending directly from a Bronx Zoo breeding program that saved the species from extinction.

A whimsical tower with a spiral staircase, inspired by the Space Age and the Möbius strip.

Off a hiking trail in Rhode Island stands a picturesque memorial to a long-forgotten war.

Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.

A virtually untouched "home on the hill" for the flora and fauna of Rhode Island.

Abandoned Coast Artillery fort now serves as a graffiti canvas and sightseeing vantage point.

This piece of peacetime naval wreckage memorializes the tragic sinking of the USS Maine--an event which sparked the Spanish-American war.

America's "second most important bell" is a contentious spoil of the Civil War.

Historic Hull Street was actually the first street with a proper name in the Boston area.

This massive boulder is inscribed with the story of a sensational hostage negotiation dating back to Colonial times.

The proud hometown of an American legend has honored their favorite son with what seems to be a gravestone.

All that remains of this Massachusetts town, demolished in the name of progress, is a stone marker.

Mass Grave of 48 colonists killed in a raid by Native Americans and the French in 1704.

The oldest surviving wood-frame building in North America is still in the family.

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

The homestead of American patriot John Adams.

This evocatively named natural crevasse was created by a torrent of water that smashed right through a granite deposit.

Rising 30 feet in the air atop Quarry Hill, the Old Powder House is the oldest stone building in the state of Massachusetts.

Overgrown ruins of a turn of the century island fort that sees very few visitors.

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.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

The railroad tunnel nicknamed the "Bloody Pit" for taking the lives of hundreds during its construction.

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.