Places angv411 Wants to Go

It looks like a whale, it's part of Yale, and it's best-known by a nickname you can probably work out for yourself.

This historic park site contains the last remnants of a once bustling canal system.

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

An overgrown and abandoned tuberculosis ward resides in the midst of a quaint modern neighborhood.

The gravestone of an eccentric Connecticut doctor features dinosaur tracks and a pair of fossil tree casts.

This dam in the woods, built by Henry Ford with only manpower and oxen, holds no water and serves no purpose.

In the middle of a New England forest sit the crumbling ruins of World War II-era ammunition storage bunkers.

This phantom island appeared on maps for over a century before amateur radio enthusiasts beat Google Earth to the punch in its "undiscovery."

The ship that got left behind.

This abandoned psychiatric hospital once housed more than 4,000 patients in the middle of a quaint New England town.

A famed data visualizer's personal sculpture garden is a landscape of modern and megalithic wonders.

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

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

Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.

This natural rock "church" might not be a proper chapel but that doesn't mean it's not beautiful.

For over 80 years, Mayan ruins stood proudly in a most unlikely location.

An enormous cat made of recycled wood scraps.

A small Second Empire-style building is one of only seven remaining lighthouses on the Hudson River.

Three acres of mythology-inspired sculptures are visible from the highway.

Western Europe's only representation of a Roman goddess still in its original location sits in an unassuming park.

Mysteriously stacked storefront paths give this medieval British town an iconic style like none other.

The 72-foot giant escaped confinement in a large patch of mulch only to be reburied in the sandy shores of the Potomac River.

The hometown of Popeye's creator is littered with a growing collection of granite cartoon characters.

Locals purchased this abandoned quarry in order to make sure it continues to be overgrown.