Places nixolasblartel Wants to Go

The charming collection celebrates a small Ohio village's Finnish roots.

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

Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

A beautiful Gilded Age hotel in the White Mountains with surprising diplomatic history.

At this small shop off a dirt road in the forest, the specialty is eel the owner caught and smoked himself.

This tiny patch of arid sand sits in one of the greenest states in the United States.

Panoramic views of the city of New Haven and the Long Island Sound, with a side of history.

Amazing views of Long Island Sound can be seen from this mountaintop tower.

The ruins of an abandoned 18th-century town that is slowly being reclaimed by the forest.

A seasonal movie monster museum featuring wax creations by a relative of one of the original Universal Studios monsters.

A former copper mine which became a truly unsuccessful prison.

More than a century of radio history is told in these displays.

This Connecticut video store has a vast and varied archive that contains everything from 'Koyaanisqatsi' to 'The King's Speech.'

American artist J. Alden Weir purchased this 60-acre estate for $10 and a painting.

The head of a legendary creature allegedly killed during colonial times is now on display at a local restaurant.

Come for the gun-toting hillbilly madman, stay for the ice-cream loving basketball bears.

This cavernous abandoned marble mine is popular with ice skaters in the winter.

One man is on a singular quest to name an island after a famous hip-hop artist.

Enjoy egg rolls and live music in a converted bank vault.

A massive rotating globe sits at the center of Babson Park.

An elaborate, hidden model train in the Needham Town Forest.

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

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.