Places brianvburke Wants to Go

A roadside park in eastern Maine first marked the halfway point between the equator and North Pole with a brass pin in 1896.

This waterfront museum in Maine is dedicated to the history of the smoked-herring trade.

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

A popular 19th-century natural landmark is now hidden within a sprawling forest.

Nearly four centuries after its founding, remnants of one of the oldest planned communities in North America are still visible in southern Brooklyn.

The best B-movies filmed on a shoestring budget were born here.

Built hundreds of years ago this downtown iron barrier once protected a much despised king.

Bowl in splendor, if you're lucky.

A collection of mechanical beasts with some interesting names.

A collection of haunted artifacts chronicles the career of the world’s most famous paranormal investigators. Museum is temporarily closed with plans to re-open.

A once-booming railroad left abandoned next to the Quinnipiac River marshes now intersects with a hiking trail.

Now home to hardy plants, these sand and gravel dunes once held back a massive prehistoric lake.

This lovely hilltop tower was specifically built to withstand 100 MPH winds.

Inside a state forest, the forgotten remains of a Cold War defensive installation.

137 graves holding New England's earliest residents.

The ancient past meets the retro-future at these dinosaur tracks that are protected by a geodesic dome.

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.

Once a private collection, now the only museum of arms and armor in the Western Hemisphere - CLOSED.

The macabre paintings created by famous suicide proponent Jack Kevorkian, or "Dr. Death."

The self-proclaimed world's smallest museum, located next to a Massachusetts sandwich chain.

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

This exhibit is devoted to the games and wonder that Hasbro has brought children worldwide.

This old mill and former police station now present a world-class collection of Orthodox iconography.

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