Places Mabel Wants to Go

An unusual library of dead things at the Rhode Island School of Design.

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."

100 massive sculptures in the Hudson River Valley.

The Kalamazoo factory has 100 years of instrument-making, and one big wartime secret.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

A unique music museum housed in a historic Boston theater.

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

A museum dedicated to the dead and the tools used to usher them into the afterlife.

Opulent downtown movie theater now houses cars as an indoor parking garage.

The birthplace of the Ford Model T is now a museum full of antique cars.

This museum boasts a bucket of teeth and tells the tale of a 20th-century dental circus.

More than a century of radio history is told in these displays.

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

The site of the first "historically true" UFO encounter in the U.S.

This once-private estate is now a dreamy, meditative garden that's open to the public.

This abandoned ironworks was once the most important military supplier in America.

Reforestation in action is the main attraction in this abandoned quarry.

This abandoned cemetery is crumbling into ruin, exposing the artifacts and bodies buried there.