Places Amanda Wants to Go

Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.

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

The macabre paintings created by famous suicide proponent Jack Kevorkian, or "Dr. Death."

This rare symbol of Eastern philosophy in the West has been created over years of painstaking construction by the local community.

The sprawling, eccentric estate of Ames and Ames, a brilliant botanist, and a genius inventor and artist.

Located in a beautifully restored ice house, this museum is the result of decades of hard work and devotion to the craft of plumbing.

Locals purchased this abandoned quarry in order to make sure it continues to be overgrown.

This miniature feudal castle was built on a whim to honor a US Navy pioneer.

This delicate museum is devoted to the art and industry that once supported Cape Cod's oldest town.

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

This tall Massachusetts folly got its name thanks to all of the purple prose its vistas inspired.

The ruins of a Massachusetts prison farm can still be found crumbling the woods of a state park.

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

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

The homestead of American patriot John Adams.

This railroad tunnel was once the longest in Massachusetts.

The Atlantis of Cape Cod reemerges during the lowest of tides.

35,000 grape hyacinths flow like water down a garden hill.

On top of Gibbet Hill lie the ruins of a lavish turn-of-the-century estate that never quite came to be.

A museum dedicated to the quirky and colorful world created by Springfield's favorite son.

Final resting place of the author who wrote the ghost story "The Turn of the Screw," and his brother, the Harvard doctor and paranormal investigator.

This tiny, painted door at the base of a tree stump has been a fixture of the Harvard University campus for decades.

The thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.

The highest point in the state of New Hampshire, and while unlikely "the worst weather in the world," it sure seems that way to hikers.