Places BrandyBacon Wants to Go

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

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

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

This French Canadian classic is a specialty of the oldest continually used church in Minneapolis.

These unique markers designate the route American forces took during the Liberation of France.

The first ever diner included on the National Register of Historic Places is famous for its custard French toast.

Sculptures, jams, and the wild west collide at this folksy retreat.

Armenian monks at an island monastery in the Venetian Lagoon make a rare rose petal jam.

A pair of 7-foot legs belonging to the military man of the Mayflower stand jauntily by the side of the road.

It took 275 years and four burials to finally put the Mayflower’s most famous passenger to rest.

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

A lighthouse on a diminutive island was one of the first of its kind to guide seamen home.

A man in a plane delivers Christmas packages to lighthouses.

This small glass cube is a peaceful out-of-the-way sanctuary at the busy airport.

A little Lego easter egg is hidden underwater in the Boston Tea Party tableau at Miniland.

It was an experiment to prove that glacial boulders and rocks can be used in constructions and dwelling.

A defunct all-girls college which may be the resting place of H.P. Lovecraft's real-life Necronomicon.

A historic custom house with ties to George Washington is now a shrine to local nautical history.

This picturesque abandoned home is rumored to be a spite house.

Ornate and macabre headstone in one of the country's oldest cemeteries.

In Gloucester, Massachussets, fishermen celebrate a successful year at sea by charging a lubed pole to capture an Italian flag.

A dollhouse full of taxidermy rodents, each one handcrafted and given a sordid past.

The world's best collection to gauge whether or not you should wear a scarf outside.

Colorful clay cliffs tower over an unofficial nudist beach on Martha's Vineyard.