Places cccahill18 Wants to Go

The larger-than-life art installation at Tampa International Airport welcomes travelers to town.

The world's only and thus largest collection of its kind celebrates everyday wonder through simple umbrella sheaths.

Designed as a place for patients to take in the scenery, this tower has a dark history.

The building that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House."

A beautiful, creepy 19th-century castle stands incongruously in rural Vermont.

A New England curiosity cabinet, one hundred years on.

Beautiful hillside Vermont cemetery with amazing funerary art.

These mysterious petroglyphs in Vermont reflect a troubled history in the treatment of Native American culture.

A humble reminder to Bedford’s past sits hidden in plain sight.

A trailblazing sovereign nation tucked in the American state of Wisconsin.

A wonderfully curated used bookstore in an airport.

A Milwaukee museum provides an unsparing and ultimately empowering look at the Black American experience.

For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.

On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.

This small shop walked so America could run on Dunkin'.

One of the now-less-hidden floral gems of the "Emerald Necklace."

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

Friction between grains of sand cause a curious "singing" sound.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

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

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

One of the two USPS mailboats left in service docks regularly at Weirs Beach, Bear Island, and other Lake Winnipesaukee islands to deliver their mail.

All that remains of the former site of the final home of president Franklin Pierce.

The dress young Pierce wore prior to his breeching ceremony in the early 1800s is now on display for all to see.