Places mfoster42 Wants to Go

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

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

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

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

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

This upscale streetwear store is hidden behind a fake Snapple machine in the back of a deli.

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.

An early life spent in this "Old Kentucky Home" inspired the writings of North Carolina's most famous novelist.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

The scant remains of this flooded historic village can be explored in one of the most remote areas of the Great Smokies.

A museum and doll store featuring a surreal and super sanitized version of where babies come from.

Where school buses go to die and be reborn as whimsical works of art.

This high point in the Great Smoky Mountains is said to be home to the chief of all bears.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

The remains of the iconic train crash from the movie 'The Fugitive' can still be found rusting along the Great Smoky Railroad.

This vast kitty-themed collection illustrates the history of human-cat interaction.

This rare basilica nestled right in downtown Asheville is an architectural marvel, inside and out.

A wedding chapel, vintage clothing shop, and bar all under one roof.

An unfinished rail tunnel that has since been used to house cheese and bats.

This granite rock face is named for the magnificent reflection that occurs when the sun hits it just right.

The only working large-scale tea plantation in the United States.

Dedicated to the history of the health sciences.

Dental instruments from the illustrious history of American dentistry.