Places ofthrasher Wants to Go

The abandoned "Red Star Train Graveyard" is the final rusting place for precious artifacts of train history.

270 million year-old forest of stone.

Teddy Roosevelt’s famous “midnight ride to the presidency" started at this small lake high up in the Adirondacks.

The world champion cow is buried within a historic old asylum.

This tree was warped centuries ago to serve as a botanical wayfaring tool.

This resort community was known as the "Black Eden of Michigan."

A series of 33 stone markers maps an ancient 55-mile transportation route.

Though its branches are painted bright colors by generations of locals, the tree is said to be a haunted portal to hell.

Once a home for cows and hay, this barn has been transformed into an event cathedral.

It leads to a former hospital’s old root cellar.

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

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

A tiny plaque marks the location of the water source that facilitated the birth of modern-day Boston.

The remnants of a Gilded Age elegance preserved in the middle of a stark modern tower.

An interesting decoration on this historic site, this weathervane comes with as many legends as it does questions.

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

These whimsical works of art tell the story of the city's past and present.

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

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

This historic Boston building has gone from personal estate to porn theater and back again.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.