Places adamthehistorianghosthunter Wants to Go

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

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."

This fairy tale-themed amusement park is now abandoned, and childhood metaphors abound.

The final resting place of New England's last "vampire."

A disastrous shipwreck and a tragic love story.

The haunting history of a little girl lost.

A plaque memorializes the Boston location of one of the largest nightclub fires in history.

Shelves covered in dozens of coffee bean varieties fill this North End institution.

An 80-year-old house built out of newspapers.

Forgotten under the construction of a new urban roadway is a small, abandoned part of town.

The location of the pie company that gave a classic toy its name is now a parking lot.

A reliquary of pop culture marvels, including the world's largest (and most terrifying) Jack-in-the-Box.

The gravestone of an eccentric Connecticut doctor features dinosaur tracks and a pair of fossil tree casts.

This petite park lets visitors see and touch examples of fossilized dinosaur tracks.

Final resting place of the actress famed for her roles in Dark Shadows and Dario Argento's Suspiria.

A Yale University president wears full samurai garb in one of America’s oldest cemeteries.

This tribute to the founding father of the American dictionary originally contained a spelling error.

A lone tower rises above the cliffs in a city park, offering fantastic views of the Connecticut landscape.

The final resting place of one member of the Amistad slave revolt who never made it back home.

A tiny memorial for the year the Connecticut River almost destroyed New England.

An extra-wide chair built to accommodate the former president's big behind.

Connecticut's shot tower is near the end of its life.

This opera house along the banks of the Connecticut River has two Tony Awards to its credit but it’s never staged a single opera.

This lovely hilltop tower was specifically built to withstand 100 MPH winds.