Places BrandyBacon Wants to Go

A town wears its heart on the sleeve of a smiling girl, arms flung wide open in a cheerful greeting for all who encounter her.

An unrecognized nation-state created in the 1820s to avoid taxes.

Site of an escape, ten murders, and some scalpings.

A 12,000-year-old bog boasting rare plants and fauna.

The strange, ritualistic-seeming 100+ year old basement of a New Hampshire undergrad society.

A recreated sign from the movie Jumanji has become a makeshift tribute to the film's late star.

This modern medieval weapon of war was built to toss pumpkins.

Murder scene memorialized in perpetuity by grisly obelisk.

The only one of New Hampshire's original 14 World War II watchtowers to survive in near-original condition.

Final resting places of a husband and wife who became famous for their claims of extraterrestrial abduction.

This small museum is an eccentric shrine to boyhood in the 1960s.

The childhood home of the meat inspector who would become the face of America.

One of the few brewers in the U.S. experimenting with hop-free beers.

A New Hampshire grave with a grudge.

Carved, egg-shaped stone with no explanation.

Rock face that shares a name with Mary Shelley's famous doctor.

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

This small stone chapel is a hidden gem just outside the University of New Hampshire campus.

Known as one of the most climbed mountains in the world, this barren peak is permanently bald thanks to an anti-wolf fire.

Maybe the only missile installed in a public park, this Cold War leftover was one of the first to carry a nuclear warhead.

Scene of the grisly murder of two Norwegian women in 1873.

A stone memorial erected for New Hampshire's only convicted witch.

Final resting place of the two women killed on a small island off the coast of New Hampshire.

A strange, heartwarming, decades-old declaration of love on a New Hampshire roadside.