Places Temporary Hero Wants to Go

This miniature feudal castle was built on a whim to honor a US Navy pioneer.

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

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

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

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

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

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

A New England ghost town features a trail of boulders etched with intriguing life lessons.

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

The walkable ruins of an 19th century hotel, destroyed in a horse cremation gone wrong.

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

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

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

Friction between grains of sand cause a curious "singing" sound.

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

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

A collection of full-size movie monsters opened to the public.

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

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

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

This upscale streetwear store is hidden behind a fake Snapple machine in the back of a deli.

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

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

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