Places brianvburke Wants to Go

The largest stone moai on Rapa Nui.

Featuring the largest CinemaScope screen in Pennsylvania, this drive-in has entertained moviegoers for more than half a century.

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

Dozens of bronze sculptures are woven into the landscape along this trail.

A stone marker dedicated to a Black veteran of the American Revolution who refused to leave his land near Walden Pond.

This Tudor-style mansion is home to the first roadside confectioner in the United States.

Rochester's signature culinary delicacy.

Nobody's quite sure who erected this monument marking the spot where a gray wolf was shot and killed.

This penny stopped a bullet and saved a soldier’s life during the American Civil War.

Once an integral part of Native American life, very few of these communal New England stones have survived to the present day.

The Inuit kayak from Robert Peary's 1896 expedition to Greenland is now on display at a local library.

New Hampshire's first neighborhood is now preserved as a historic village with live action role players.

Over a millennium ago, this site on the shores of Lake Titicaca was home to a city of more than 10,000 people.

The kind of mixed-up place that drives archaeologists crazy.

An Olympic hero stripped of his medals is buried in a town he never visited, which took his name after his death.

Winter and summer solstice aligned sculpture in the middle of nowhere.

A stone marker commemorating the first time sound was transmitted over wires.

An approximately 500 million-year-old rock outcropping covered in fossilized bacteria.

The mansion home of author Edith Wharton.

He’s not from around here.

Visit the grave of America's most prominent paranormal investigators and self-proclaimed demonologists.

The largest battery in New England sits atop a Massachusetts mountain.

New Preston and Kent, Connecticut - where Friday the 13th, Part 2 was filmed.

The haunting history of a little girl lost.