Places clarochelle Wants to Go

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

A collection of full-size movie monsters opened to the public.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

Behind a modern brick exterior lies the oldest continuously-operating lunch-car diner in the United States.

A large circus museum with summer performances.

A stone marker memorializes the spot where the King broke up a street fight with a classic karate stance.

One of the oldest carousels in the United States is still running in the coastal village of Watch Hill.

Constructed in 1676, this stone memorial is believed to be the oldest veteran's memorial in the United States.

Only a shrine remains at the site of the catastrophic nightclub inferno that killed 100 Great White fans.

The widow of Benjamin Franklin's brother became the first female newspaper editor in the United States.

Rhode Island's tallest building bears a resemblance to the "Daily Planet" building and has been empty for more than five years.

The second oldest Jewish graveyard in the U.S. is tiny, with connections to George Washington and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

A plaque marks the spot on the bridge where one of the first elephants in the U.S., Little Bet, was gunned down.

The final resting place of the famous Rhode Island lighthouse keeper who heroically saved dozens of people from drowning.

This cemetery is home to numerous granite headstones that are works of art unto themselves.

A single light illuminates one man's overshadowed contributions to street lamp history.