Places toniamonkey Wants to Go

"Mock all and sundry things, but leave the saints alone."

An old trolley bridge was converted into a breathtaking garden bursting with colorful flowers.

"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."

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.

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

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

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

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

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.

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

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

No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.

Over 50 whirling pools left behind from the glacial age.

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

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.

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

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

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

Remnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mall.

The elevator hidden in a smokestack on Roosevelt's yacht now serves as a monument to the former president.

An allegorical sculpture in Maryland wears the artist’s politics on its trunk.

This 1830s store is believed to be the site of Harriet Tubman's first stand.

The United States' oldest Episcopal church still in active use.