Places adamthehistorianghosthunter Wants to Go

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

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.

This abandoned psychiatric hospital once housed more than 4,000 patients in the middle of a quaint New England town.

The ancient past meets the retro-future at these dinosaur tracks that are protected by a geodesic dome.

137 graves holding New England's earliest residents.

A museum designed by and dedicated to P.T. Barnum in the town where he is buried.

Quirky castle designed by the American actor best known for portraying Sherlock Holmes on stage.

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

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.

An archival collection of over 2,200 case studies which includes human brain specimens and tumor specimens.

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

The intriguing personal collection of a professional demon-chaser.

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.

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

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

One of the most scenic falls in Massachusetts has a history of death and grim legend.

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

A historic house in St. Louis was plagued by a series of suicides committed by family members involved in a successful brewery.

Perhaps the world's only gas station inspired by a political scandal.