Places REvans Wants to Go

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

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

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

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

The origin of these small islands' sweet names is a local mystery.

The stone sculpture of an Ottoman soldier is an homage to a lost Providence landmark.

A 132-year-old telescope continues to keep watch over the night skies above Providence.

A giant green dragon crawls down from the roof of the Providence Children's Museum.

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

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

Final resting place of one of the classic authors of horror literature.

Last residence of H.P. Lovecraft featured in his story "The Haunter of the Dark."

Nothing says indulgence like a 1,500-pound chocolate castle.

A glittering Thai Buddhist temple in suburban Pennsylvania.

The world's third-largest crystal sphere has sat in the Penn Museum since 1927 with the exception of one outlandish theft.

A daily replay of the experiment that proved the rotation of the Earth.

One of the U.S. Forest Service's only mansions is outfitted with a dinner table for floating food.

The last street in Pittsburgh that's paved with wood.

The only geyser in the state of Pennsylvania is caused by pressure from an abandoned coal mine outside of the ghost town Centralia.

The internal railway of one of the biggest steel plants in America has been transformed into a linear park with unique industrial views.

A failed piece of Orientalism has become the proud symbol of a community.