Places afink Wants to Go

When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

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

A restored historic movie theater is the perfect place for a regional film archive.

Stone monument honoring a town founder has a witch-boot shaped stain and a curse to go with it.

This Art Deco theater is the last remaining opera house in the “little Broadway of the North.”

The second-oldest garden cemetery in the U.S. was also a college brainstorm spot of Stephen King.

This handsome giant is said to mark the birthplace of the mythical woodsman and even had a cameo in a Stephen King novel.

The eccentric mansion of one of the most popular horror authors of modern times.

Built for television, this statue now serves as an unlikely memorial to a fireman who died on 9/11.

The largest tidal whirlpool in the Western Hemisphere.

As communication goes completely wireless, this Maine museum remembers all the wires that got us to this point.

This architectural onion has an original 1930's Jerry O'Mahony dining car at its core.

This waterfront museum in Maine is dedicated to the history of the smoked-herring trade.

This candy-striped tower is the farthest east you can go in the United States.

Explore the dark underground corridors of this graffiti-covered former military fortification.

The oldest living organism in New York City. Maybe.

This derelict building used to house infirm Freemasons, their widows, and orphans.

These World War I shooting range tunnels are now haunted halls of underground graffiti accessed through the roots of a tree.

This once-grand marvel of engineering is now 41 miles of scenic hiking trail.

Haunted Victorian house that inspired a legendary "Ghostbusters" court ruling.

One of the earliest bowling lanes in the U.S. doubled as a sewing school during a time when women had little job opportunity.

The home of one of America's most wealthy industrialists is now a historic site that remembers a more decadent time in the country's history.

This tiny church near Sleepy Hollow contains Henri Matisse's last work, a rose window, and nine windows by Marc Chagall.

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