Places Becca Byrne Wants to Go

Colorful clay cliffs tower over an unofficial nudist beach on Martha's Vineyard.

A charming remnant of 19th-century fishing towns sits on Michigan’s Leelanau Peninsula.

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

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

An architectural statement of artistic intent smack in the middle of Providence, Rhode Island's Colonial uniformity.

Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.

Books bound in human skin and H. P. Lovecraft's letters are among a few of the treasures this library has to offer.

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."

On a side street near the interstate is the building where the famous anarchist once owned an ice cream parlor.

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

In Gloucester, Massachussets, fishermen celebrate a successful year at sea by charging a lubed pole to capture an Italian flag.

The oldest playground in America.

This little-known rival to the Library of Congress houses one of the largest collections of pre-1876 American books, newspapers, and manuscripts.

Large Massachusetts museum dedicated to Armenian history and culture.

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

MIT students continue the legacy of beloved professor "Doc" Edgerton through learning by doing.

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

The headquarters of one of the world’s longest-running humor magazines bears a noticeable resemblance to a head wearing a Prussian helmet.

Site of the creepy house used in Lucio Fulci's "The House by the Cemetery."

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

This giant Massachusetts sycamore is said to hold the dubious distinction of being the "widest tree East of the Mississippi!"

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

Last church of this militaristic WWII style.

A lighthouse on a diminutive island was one of the first of its kind to guide seamen home.