Places brianvburke Wants to Go

The best revenge is a five-tiered layer cake of a dwelling.

A rare 16-bedroom Qing Dynasty house re-erected on the campus of the Peabody Essex Museum. 

The Vermont grave of a 4,000-year-old mummy prince.

Two artist-designed restrooms are part of the collection at the Smith College Museum of Art.

One man’s obsessive, 30-plus-year quest is behind the pies at this spot on the Lower East Side.

Explore the world's largest collection of locks, keys, handcuffs, and ornate hardware, and crack the code on an antique-filled escape room.

Have a heavy metal Christmas at this bizarre Turkish-American restaurant.

A small Second Empire-style building is one of only seven remaining lighthouses on the Hudson River.

The Hudson River School comes alive at this palatial estate.

Tales of ghosts, cryptids, and true crime rise from the murky waters of the largest freshwater wetland in Massachusetts.

A sign marks the location of an 18th-century sawmill allegedly owned by a wizard who employed Satanic imps.

The 570-ton boulder that gave a New Jersey town its name.

This bottle-shaped monument pays tribute to the Appalachian drink that changed the pace of human life.

Founded by Cliff Barackman of 'Finding Bigfoot' fame, this museum is dedicated to the study of North America's unacknowledged hairy woodland hominids.

An amateur telescope-making club has been gathering at this Vermont site for more than a century.

A coastal rock outcrop with mysterious inscriptions variously attributed to Native Americans, Portuguese, Phoenicians, Norse, and more.

A seemingly out-of-place comic book surprise sits on the 21st floor of the tallest university library in the world. 

This Connecticut ferry has been operating in some form since 1655.

Stone monument honoring a town founder has a witch-boot shaped stain and a curse to go with it.

An unsolved murder victim's grave which may or may not contain her body.

Palestinian-style savory breads and fine patisserie are served with a generous side of hospitality.

Haunted boulder in a front yard with a witch painted on it.

Since 1947, this living history museum has been providing an immersive look at life in Plymouth Colony.

At the point of oceanic inaccessibility, you can't get farther from dry land without leaving the planet.