Places bibliobecca Wants to Go

Memorial of the Salem witchcraft hysteria in the town of Danvers, where it all began.

The thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

Around 100 sculptures from artists all over the world decorate the hiking trails surrounding this locale.

The building that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House."

The monument dedicated to Phineas Gage in the town where his accident happened.

The house where Rudyard Kipling wrote 'The Jungle Book' is also the location of the first tennis court in Vermont.

A small chapel celebrating the spiritual bond between dogs and humans.

This museum on a college campus pays tribute to the Arctic and to two explorer alumni.

A lesser-known part of the Kinsey Institute is this impressive collection of art, artifacts, and material culture related to human sexuality.

Once adorning a New York skyscraper, these reclaimed ruins now haunt an Indiana park.

A popular place to pick up prehistoric coral fossils from the time when Michigan was an ocean.

Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.

More than 8,000 drinking jugs say “Cheers!” to a guy named Toby.

A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.

This botanical garden outside Chicago boasts an array of more than 300 varieties of lilacs.

World's second largest particle accelerator, where nature reveals its secrets.

In one Chicago park, a trio of werewolves are waiting to devour their fallen brethren.

When you visit his grave, be sure to rub the Great Emancipator's nose for good luck.

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.