Places Ybleh5 Wants to Go

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

The tomb of Increase Mather and his son Cotton, influential colonial ministers obsessed with the occult.

"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."

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

On top of Gibbet Hill lie the ruins of a lavish turn-of-the-century estate that never quite came to be.

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

These whimsical works of art tell the story of the city's past and present.

Stay at this storybook estate, featuring Sir Henry Hudson Kitson's masterpiece "Gingerbread House."

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

The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.

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

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

A museum dedicated to the quirky and colorful world created by Springfield's favorite son.

Over 50 whirling pools left behind from the glacial age.

This former Masonic hall has been turned into an art project that uses even more metaphysical iconography.

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

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

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

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

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

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

Come for the 14-foot-long taxidermy alligator. Stay for the mini costumed gators shooting pool.

This city block-long devotional site, a replica of a famous site in France, is dedicated to the patron saint of grandmothers, mothers, and educators.

Anne Rice, one of the most influential writers in gothic literature, is buried alongside her husband in a New Orleans cemetery.