Places Nycteris54 Wants to Go

The largest body of water in Massachusetts annihilated four small towns just to slake Boston's thirst.

The 92-foot-tall structure is based on the aircraft that carried the first Americans into space.

The walkable ruins of an 19th century hotel, destroyed in a horse cremation gone wrong.

The mighty room where the poet spent most of her life is available to rent for an hour or two.

This historic graveyard monument is dedicated to a tragic victim of witch trial hysteria.

Located just behind a quiet residential neighborhood, this is ground zero for the Salem witchcraft hysteria of 1692.

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

At the supposed instruction of Ben Franklin and Socrates, a Spiritualist believer intended to birth a mechanical messiah here.

A cave dug by a man directed by ghosts to find pirate treasure.

This mysterious artificial cave has long puzzled New Englanders.

To avoid the demolition costs this abandoned drawbridge was simply left in the up position.

Rhode Island's tallest building bears a resemblance to the "Daily Planet" building and has been empty for more than five years.

An abandoned gun-funded 19th century utopia.

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

This Cape Cod museum exhibits what it claims is the only authenticated pirate treasure in the world.

This lakeside tower is the third attempt at getting a tourist destination to stick on the spot.

This abandoned radar station from the Cold War era now only broadcasts a seriously ominous air of isolation.

A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.

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

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

This dam in the woods, built by Henry Ford with only manpower and oxen, holds no water and serves no purpose.

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

This is the house that spite built.

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