Places AAlifetogether Wants to Go

With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.

Ruins of a historic medical facility sits eerily by the water.

The site where chief Miantonomo of the Narraganset people was captured.

The graves of a Connecticut family thought to have been plagued by a vampire.

The kind of mixed-up place that drives archaeologists crazy.

The US Navy's only submarine museum is also home to the world's first nuclear submarine.

One of the earliest graveyards in the region.

Astonishing collection of helmets, scientific instruments, and medical models.

This old-fashioned candy shop, ice cream parlor, and diner served as the setting for one of TV's most controversial series finales.

Thomas Edison's home and final resting place also boasts an impressive garage, where some of the earliest electric cars are on display.

This tiny New Jersey village has lived many lives but seems determined to remain a ghost town.

Where European elegance met riverside leisure in early 20th-century Pennsylvania. 

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

Want to build a wind turbine? Secede from the nation.

The largest known open fault in the United States is basically a giant natural refrigerator.

Remnants of a forgotten 1920s speakeasy and Prohibition-era murals were discovered in its basement.

The city's oldest Chinese restaurant offers local history and seriously good food.

This museum dedicated to the history of the medical bone trade and human osteology.

A house filled to the brim with oddities and curiosities.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

A 246-foot-high revolving restaurant rises unexpectedly from a forested Finnish hilltop.

Hidden deep in a forest is this geological wonder carved by glaciers.

The etchings on this narrow channel between two islands bear witness to maritime travelers who have passed through since the Middle Ages.