Places dcowan Wants to Go

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

An Escher-inspired library dedicated to the wonders of the human mind, yet closed to the public.

A small chapel celebrating the spiritual bond between dogs and humans.

A New England curiosity cabinet, one hundred years on.

One car at a time please.

An unrealized dream to wirelessly electrify the entire Earth.

137 graves holding New England's earliest residents.

The Connecticut village named for its subterranean thunder.

A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.

An old trolley bridge was converted into a breathtaking garden bursting with colorful flowers.

Small shop offering mail-order rare and exotic plants.

Restaurant in a 1741 farmhouse that touts the story of its haunting on its menus.

Friction between grains of sand cause a curious "singing" sound.

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

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

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

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!