Places Sarah Blake Wants to Go

A Civil War Museum with some notable medical antiques.

An astounding collection of medical specimens, including bits of President Lincoln.

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

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

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

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

A plaque memorializes the Boston location of one of the largest nightclub fires in history.

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

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.

Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.

A spooky and decrepit mental health facility is slowly being replaced with newer digs.

World War II bunker still standing on the New Jersey beach.

The rusting remains are visible sticking out of the waters of the Delaware Bay.

Home to the Titanic Historical Society's collection.

Underground tunnels remain beneath this abandoned mental asylum.

Step inside Lucy, the world's largest "elephant."

Arlington Cemetery exhibit dedicated to death and grieving.

Century-old shop, specializing in Occult products.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

Huge masonic hall in Philadelphia with lavishly themed rooms.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

The body of St. John Neumann and his collection of hundreds of relics, on display in a Philly church.

The headquarters of the famous Yale society.