Places RCooper Wants to Go

Shelves covered in dozens of coffee bean varieties fill this North End institution.

A stunning garden filled with fantastical environmental folk art and sculptures.

The homestead of American patriot John Adams.

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

From bench to vandalism to art, this silly prank seat was funny enough to become permanent.

This is the house that spite built.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

The self-proclaimed world's smallest museum, located next to a Massachusetts sandwich chain.

This picturesque abandoned home is rumored to be a spite house.

"Mock all and sundry things, but leave the saints alone."

Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.

The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.

A mysterious collection of stones stand outside a small New England town.

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

Stay at this storybook estate, featuring Sir Henry Hudson Kitson's masterpiece "Gingerbread House."

Naturally formed white marble arch housed in an abandoned marble quarry from the 1800s.

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.

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

This former Masonic hall has been turned into an art project that uses even more metaphysical iconography.

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

Over 50 historic windmills whir away at this outdoor museum.

To honor his gardening wife, this yard artist turns bowling balls into playful, colorful sculptures.

One believer transformed a local curiosity into proof of Vikings on the Great Plains.

The 55-pound trichobezoar was removed from the stomach of a cow.