Places bluestargirl Wants to Go

17,400 lbs., 12 feet in diameter, and 29 years in the making.

Elaborate drama imparts an appreciation for 19th century hardships.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

A six-ton, 12-foot-tall concrete prairie dog is touted as the largest in the world.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

Watch the newest land on the planet form before your eyes.

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

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

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

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

This delicate museum is devoted to the art and industry that once supported Cape Cod's oldest town.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

A plaque memorializes the Boston location of one of the largest nightclub fires in history.

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

The breadfruit-adorned final resting place of the infamous Captain of the HMS Bounty.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

Since 1874, this macabre collection has developed into a museum devoted to Scotland Yard's mementos of dastardly deeds.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.