Places yweiss1 Wants to Go

This historic patch of real estate offers a glimpse of colonial Boston.

The last remaining 19th-century tenement from Boston's old West End neighborhood.

Millions of numbers carved in glass represent the tattoos forced upon victims.

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

An easy-to-miss garden in Boston's North End honors the mother of JFK and others who lost children in WWII.

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

The life of one of FDR's possible mistresses is preserved in her palatial Hudson Valley mansion.

"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."

Serving Central Asian breads that range from cracker-crisp to warm and fluffy, this bakery brings Bukhara to Queens.

This small museum is an eccentric shrine to boyhood in the 1960s.

The only one of New Hampshire's original 14 World War II watchtowers to survive in near-original condition.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

The only intersection in America where the buildings on all four corners were built pre-Revolutionary War.

This old cement mine has been used as everything from a mushroom farm to a recording studio.

While many places make the claim, the Library of Congress says this restaurant is the birthplace of the hamburger.

Etchings in a pile of boulders on the Long Island Sound are a monument to vanquished native peoples.

This private island is still in the family after a 400-year history including a witch hunt, a pirate, and multiple wars.

This 19th-century Hamptons windmill was once home to modernist painter Agnes Pelton.

Nature and beauty amidst pollution and industrial wreckage.

Deliciousness abounds at a Guatemalan restaurant masquerading as a pizzeria.

The former estate of the Guggenheims, part of the opulent Gold Coast that inspired the Great Gatsby.

This city park was once a lookout point for George Washington’s army during the Battle of Brooklyn in 1776.

A beautiful collection of architectural ornaments rescued from demolished New York City buildings.

This secluded ruin was once a home for exotic plants.