Places quinniraechel Wants to Go

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

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

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.

Civil War-era Fort designed to withstand invasion and attack, with tricky traps called "murder holes."

This historic hotel was once home to Henry David Thoreau and rumored to be haunted by ghosts of fallen soldiers from the American Revolution.

This mysterious artificial cave has long puzzled New Englanders.

Dedicated to "the father of U.S. life insurance."

Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

In the middle of a New England forest sit the crumbling ruins of World War II-era ammunition storage bunkers.

Massachusetts memorial to murder victim Elizabeth Short near the spot where she was born.

Trash escaped from a landfill to fill beaches with all kinds of treasure.

This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.

A more than 260-year-old crypt built on Boston's oldest English burial ground.

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

A luxury hotel constructed out of a former jail.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.

Once the largest public hospital for the mentally ill was also surrounded by controversy.

This stone tower in a small town's graveyard looks as though it would be more at home in a fairy tale.

No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

From economic backbone of a community to deadly diving hole, these former stone quarries are now a park for rock climbers and graffiti artists.