Places vcrylic Wants to Go

"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."

A small museum packed with specimens from important fossil sites and minerals from historical pegmatite quarries.

This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

The Boston home of a conductor on the Underground Railroad.

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

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

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

The second largest waterfall by volume in the U.S., Willamette Falls is outdone only by Niagara in the amount of water that is pushed northward.

The macabre paintings created by famous suicide proponent Jack Kevorkian, or "Dr. Death."

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

The macabre graffiti spectacle in a quarry in a Massachusetts forest reservation.

A tribute to the couples who brave long periods of separation during wartime.

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

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

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

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

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

An enormous overgrown greenhouse teeming with graffiti and wildlife.

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

The ruins of one of the first railroads in the U.S. lie hidden within a neighborhood cul-de-sac.

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

Rumored to have tormented a family in the late 1960s, this toy now resides in a quiet little oddities shop.

The thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.