Places anjohnst Wants to Go

The world's only and thus largest collection of its kind celebrates everyday wonder through simple umbrella sheaths.

A giant telephone commemorates the last "crank" call ever made in the U.S.

The house and graveyard used in the Stephen King spine-chiller.

A parade of antique steeds offers a quirky ride through history.

The world's largest public collection of PEZ memorabilia.

The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin was neighbors with Mark Twain while living in this Connecticut home.

This small-town pizzeria won the Hollywood lottery.

The "possessed" house that inspired "The Haunting in Connecticut" book and movie.

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

A seasonal movie monster museum featuring wax creations by a relative of one of the original Universal Studios monsters.

A museum designed by and dedicated to P.T. Barnum in the town where he is buried.

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

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

A tiny monument to the classic American candy.

This wooly sculpture supposedly marks the birthplace of a famous nursery rhyme, or not.

This classic red schoolhouse is said to have been where Mary and her little lamb went to school.

The proud hometown of an American legend has honored their favorite son with what seems to be a gravestone.

The site of the first "historically true" UFO encounter in the U.S.

Founded by the famed children's book artist, this museum spreads an appreciation of the arts through picture books.

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."

This tiny, painted door at the base of a tree stump has been a fixture of the Harvard University campus for decades.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.

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