Places basil111 Wants to Go

The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.

A tribute to the students and teachers who lost their lives during the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

This last stalwart of the now-forgotten feminist restaurant movement served food in an activist atmosphere since 1977.

A castle inspired by medieval architecture is hidden in the woods of Connecticut.

Nature and religion are reunited at this unconventional church in the forest.

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

Mary Rowlandson's kidnapping ordeal became one of the nation's first best-selling books.

This old mill and former police station now present a world-class collection of Orthodox iconography.

On top of Gibbet Hill lie the ruins of a lavish turn-of-the-century estate that never quite came to be.

The Mysterious Witch Bonney, a haunted statue in an old industrial city.

This building is more than 250 years old and was built in one of the first towns settled in Massachusetts.

Dedicated to "the father of U.S. life insurance."

This American Sycamore was grown from seeds that accompanied the Apollo 14 mission in 1971.

One of America's most historic homes also holds a startling literary legacy.

Supposed Massachusetts Grave of a pre-Columbus Knight Templar.

A short walk through the woods will take you to an unusual flat hill top, used by the Shakers for outdoor worship.

An artifact taken from one of America's shortest wars.

Eliot was the first missionary to produce religious text for Algonquians in their own language.

Small caves once used as a hiding place for some of those accused during the Salem Witch Trials.

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.

A small burial ground honoring Native American veterans of the Revolutionary War.

The notorious pirate William Kidd might have buried his treasure around this local pond.

A historic bridge no one is allowed to cross.

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