Places oconke02 Wants to Go

Thousands of Mexican Free-Tailed Bats soar around an abandoned storm drain at sunset each summer.

250-year-old farm now features sculptures, a petting zoo and a hippy-bazaar.

Once the largest attraction in Rhode Island, this former amusement park is now a gorgeous coastal state park.

Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.

Tucked away in downtown Westerly is America's first shark history museum.

How did the right arm of a 13th-century English bishop wind up in a Connecticut church?

A steampunk wonderland that preserves America's history of industrial innovation.

One of two lighted lanterns hung in the church belfry on the eve of the Revolutionary War to warn that the British were on their way.

This American Sycamore was grown from seeds that accompanied the Apollo 14 mission in 1971.

You can spend the night as an honorary lighthouse keeper in this quaint, historic beacon.

A 132-year-old telescope continues to keep watch over the night skies above Providence.

This bookstore for weird fiction doubles as Providence’s de facto center for information about H.P. Lovecraft.

An unusual library of dead things at the Rhode Island School of Design.

Last residence of H.P. Lovecraft featured in his story "The Haunter of the Dark."

Books bound in human skin and H. P. Lovecraft's letters are among a few of the treasures this library has to offer.

Western New York's largest independent bookstore doubles as a historical repository of all things Niagara Falls.

The only remaining Cold War–era Minuteman II missile control center in Missouri.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

Spanking machines, fake goats, and more devices of humiliation are on display in this museum of fraternal initiation devices.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

The London pub overlooks where the Mayflower was moored before setting sail for the New World.

This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.