Places Riki Wants to Go

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

Locals purchased this abandoned quarry in order to make sure it continues to be overgrown.

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

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

The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

On top of Gibbet Hill lie the ruins of a lavish turn-of-the-century estate that never quite came to be.

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.

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

The Mysterious Witch Bonney, a haunted statue in an old industrial city.

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

The ruins of a Massachusetts prison farm can still be found crumbling the woods of a state park.

35,000 grape hyacinths flow like water down a garden hill.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

A museum dedicated to the quirky and colorful world created by Springfield's favorite son.

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

Over 50 whirling pools left behind from the glacial age.

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!