Places Ciaran Wants to Go

More than 5,000 artifacts donated by the people of the city, plus a room entirely devoted to the band U2.

One of Ireland's most infamous prisons for rebels including men, women and children.

An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.

Site of an oft forgotten and revolutionary battle.

Once the largest public hospital for the mentally ill was also surrounded by controversy.

This shrine to bovine consumption and all things fast food is a slice of culinary history both rare and well done.

Where monkeys run wild and the humans are caged.

This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.

The oldest working bell set in North America, the bells at Old North Church sat silent for their first four years in Massachusetts.

Historic Hull Street was actually the first street with a proper name in the Boston area.

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

A lone tower rises above the cliffs in a city park, offering fantastic views of the Connecticut landscape.

The ruins of an abandoned 18th-century town that is slowly being reclaimed by the forest.

A miniature village lies nearly forgotten in the forest by the side of a major highway.

Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

New England's tallest light house stands on an island with a history of cannibalism and death.

Explore the dark underground corridors of this graffiti-covered former military fortification.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

Just in case you need some cold cash at the top of the world.

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."

Last residence of H.P. Lovecraft featured in his story "The Haunter of the Dark."

This nearly endless university hallway is home to a unique sunset known as "MIThenge."

This stone tower in a small town's graveyard looks as though it would be more at home in a fairy tale.