Places sarahltait Wants to Go

Birthplace of America's first documented serial killer.

The mansion and cenotaph of the New Hampshire Faust.

A stone memorial erected for New Hampshire's only convicted witch.

Beautiful natural falls where Satan once ruined a pot of beans.

Founded by the famed children's book artist, this museum spreads an appreciation of the arts through picture books.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

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

According to legend, Bob Dylan sneaks in twice a year to eat dinner with Jack.

Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

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

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.

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

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

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

The crumbling structure is a rare surviving relic of the area's bygone mining industry.

One man's ambition created this psychedelic log home.

Dance on a hand-hewn log floor padded with bouncy boxcar springs at a saloon built in 1883.

An allegedly cursed tree represents a town's reckoning with a racist past.

A bronze monument to the infamous radio broadcast in the real New Jersey town where the fictional Martians crash-landed.

This massive boulder is either a unique rock formation created by glacial melt or a magic energy vortex.

Local lore claims this park is named after a young woman who jumped off a cliff.

This ominously named New Jersey street seems to be attracting over-the-top legends of its own making.