Places afink Wants to Go

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

Located just behind a quiet residential neighborhood, this is ground zero for the Salem witchcraft hysteria of 1692.

The macabre graffiti spectacle in a quarry in a Massachusetts forest reservation.

At the supposed instruction of Ben Franklin and Socrates, a Spiritualist believer intended to birth a mechanical messiah here.

A cave dug by a man directed by ghosts to find pirate treasure.

As state highpoints go, this spot is one of the lowest, but for years it was also the hardest to climb.

The lecture hall where Alexander Graham Bell first demonstrated the long-distance phone call.

One man’s hobby is another man’s world of metal wonders.

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

The ruins of an abandoned 18th-century town that is slowly being reclaimed by the forest.

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

A large camera obscura, constructed entirely from digitally fabricated components.

One of America's first spies started out as a teacher in this little red one-room schoolhouse.

Etchings in a pile of boulders on the Long Island Sound are a monument to vanquished native peoples.

Made of bronze and wearing a blue gown, this lady sat in the same location in the Yantic Cemetery for more than 119 years.

The mysterious headstone of an unidentified bank robber was seen visited, every year, by a woman in black.

The world's largest indoor go-kart racetrack is hiding in Connecticut.

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

The partially submerged ruins of a white marble quarry used in ancient Greece for over 1,200 years.

A magical, if a bit tacky, 1960s castle conjures up medieval fairytales and Greek mythology.

Poseidon? No one seems to know.

Perched on a spindly rock spire in a Greek archipelago, this lighthouse would make a perfect wizard's tower.

Hidden in a secluded Greek cove is a pristine beach marred only by the rusting smuggler's hulk stranded on its shores.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.