Places beauty2goav Wants to Go

A mega theme park-wax museum mélange containing all things biblical.

A museum preserving one company’s history of preserving food.

The only runway directly into the magic kingdom has been closed since 1972, but it still sings to you if you drive fast enough.

The ruins of a Massachusetts prison farm can still be found crumbling the woods of a state park.

The oldest still-operating tavern in the United States was once owned by a pirate.

Surrounded by lonely toys, this Massachusetts gravestone marks the final resting place of six children who were murdered by poverty.

The real-life site of Ichabod Crane's infamous gourd attack.

The train collection of an eccentric New England seafood mogul is now a National Historical Site.

This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.

A field of nothing but boulders which resembles a giant's gravel driveway.

Abandoned blast furnaces are an enduring reminder of Scranton's once booming iron business.

A rock outcropping left by a glacier that made itself useful throughout the centuries.

The early 20th-century home features cutting-edge technology of the day, such as ammonia refrigeration and needle showers.

Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.

A tribute to Rhode Island's state bird, a domesticated chicken breed that dominated the 19th-century poultry industry.

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

Plymouth's huge yet little-known memorial to the Pilgrims.

Artist James Turrell's ode to dawn and dusk on the campus of Rice University.

An unrealized Taoist palace left abandoned in a Houston suburb.

Sip a Negroni Sbagliato in the bar that invented it.

A museum cafe showcases Native American dishes and indigenous ingredients from across the Western Hemisphere.

This stunning blue and gold room changed cities twice before becoming part of the Smithsonian.

Sip creative cocktails in the former vault of the Riggs Bank.

Sit where JFK proposed to Jackie or where Nixon dined on meatloaf at this storied pub.