Places anfurst Wants to Go

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

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

Trash escaped from a landfill to fill beaches with all kinds of treasure.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

This railroad tunnel was once the longest in Massachusetts.

This rare symbol of Eastern philosophy in the West has been created over years of painstaking construction by the local community.

The mighty room where the poet spent most of her life is available to rent for an hour or two.

With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.

The world's largest public collection of PEZ memorabilia.

While many places make the claim, the Library of Congress says this restaurant is the birthplace of the hamburger.

These Benedictine nuns have been making artisanal cheeses since before it was cool.

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

You can spend the night as an honorary lighthouse keeper in this quaint, historic beacon.

True to its name, this bouncy walkway may be the world’s smallest suspension bridge.

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

One of the few brewers in the U.S. experimenting with hop-free beers.

These mysterious petroglyphs in Vermont reflect a troubled history in the treatment of Native American culture.

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.

A museum dedicated to the quirky and colorful world created by Springfield's favorite son.

A gravestone marks where a man's lost limb was laid to rest.

The exact whereabouts of this surreal cabinet of curiosities are rarely the same place twice.

A coastal rock outcrop with mysterious inscriptions variously attributed to Native Americans, Portuguese, Phoenicians, Norse, and more.

This 3,500 pound obelisk was constructed with more than 1,000 reclaimed guns.

Books bound in human skin and H. P. Lovecraft's letters are among a few of the treasures this library has to offer.