Places michaelamiller Wants to Go

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

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

Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.

Memorial of the Salem witchcraft hysteria in the town of Danvers, where it all began.

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

Friction between grains of sand cause a curious "singing" sound.

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

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

A collection of full-size movie monsters opened to the public.

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

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

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

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

This historic lighthouse was well known for the large number of women who served as its keeper.

The bridge's highly-contested plaque (once again) honors Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

Home of the physician who set the leg of John Wilkes Booth after the Lincoln assassination.

America's first nuclear-powered merchant ship is now a time warp to the atomic age.

Maryland's first (and last standing) toll house on America's first federal road established the state as the "Gateway to the West."

A star fort along the C&O Canal in western Maryland that protected America in three wars.

The stone marker that Mason and Dixon placed at the eastern end of the famous north-south border they surveyed.

Historic home of America's sweetheart sharpshooter, Annie Oakley.

This one-room cabin where the young colonel slept during the French and Indian War.

Politicians, bureaucrats, and military officers gathered in this field near the Capitol to settle their disputes with blood.

The whole world in one water tank.