Places alisonrodriguez Wants to Go

A monument to the first person to sail around the world solo, nowhere close to where he was born, set sail, or landed.

Dedicated to the explorer who opened Japan to the West.

An architectural statement of artistic intent smack in the middle of Providence, Rhode Island's Colonial uniformity.

The origin of these small islands' sweet names is a local mystery.

Walk a trail through a historic Quaker town that outlawed slavery in 1777 and was a major waypoint on the Underground Railroad.

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

The vaguely man-shaped root that ate the body of the founder of Rhode Island.

The site of one of history's most indelible and horrific tragedies.

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

A double agent hid information for the Soviet Union beneath this bridge for more than 20 years.

A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.

The winding route passes through an enclosed alleyway, two tunnels, and leads to the White House basement.

A miniature village lies nearly forgotten in the forest by the side of a major highway.

These beautiful ruins deep in the Pennsylvania woods are thought to have been a ski lodge or a speakeasy, but no one really knows.

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

A recently abandoned psych ward at the end of Sanatorium Road.

One of the first commercially successful anthracite-powered iron-making operations in North America.

This abandoned iron furnace was one of the first to use coke—a type of high-carbon fuel—to make iron.

Collection of trolley cars in the woods represent one man's attempt to preserve transportation history.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

The ruined remains of a coal mining ghost town are hidden within the woods.

The place where Samuel "Slater the Traitor" brought the Industrial Revolution to America.

A virtually untouched "home on the hill" for the flora and fauna of Rhode Island.

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