Places allisonic Wants to Go

A once-groundbreaking power plant turned into a hotel and mini-museum of archeological and geological wonders.

It's said that this stone with its mysterious runic inscription is evidence of the Norse visiting Narragansett.

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

An 11th-century fortress home to one of the most influential royal houses in medieval Europe.

The last woman executed for witchcraft in Europe is remembered in this Swiss museum.

Featuring a meatless buffet fit for kings, this family-owned Zurich eatery is considered the oldest vegetarian restaurant in the West.

The excellent Swiss museum of witchcraft is led by a modern witch.

This memorial commemorating fallen Swiss Guards of the French Revolution has been called the saddest stone in the world.

A careful eye can find hundreds of dinosaur tracks running along the Connecticut River.

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

This replica Viking village was created for a film that was never shot and is now open to visitors.

The "Kill Bill Church" was transformed into a place of worship after a long Hollywood history.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

Once in disrepair, the house where the 1983 film was shot has been restored and turned into a museum.

The site of a tragic massacre that spawned a multimedia franchise.

The "Seinfeld" diner.

"...I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper?"

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

Superfans of The Shawshank Redemption can take a driving tour of most of the films real locations.

Where hikers on the Tecumseh Trail can exchange a dirty sock for a free geode.

If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.

A giant, Gilded Age mansion that once belonged to the beer baron of Milwaukee.

The oldest bar in Missouri is hidden within a limestone brewery cellar more than 50 feet underground.