East Haddam, Connecticut
Gillette Castle State Park
Quirky castle designed by the American actor best known for portraying Sherlock Holmes on stage.
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Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Millinocket, Maine
Mount Katahdin
The highest point in Maine is a grand gift to the state citizens that also happens to be one end of the Appalachian Trail.
West Windsor Township, New Jersey
'War of the Worlds' Monument
A bronze monument to the infamous radio broadcast in the real New Jersey town where the fictional Martians crash-landed.
Lakehurst, New Jersey
Hindenburg Crash Site
The site of one of history's most indelible and horrific tragedies.
Washington, D.C.
Theodore Roosevelt Island
The national park was once a plantation estate.
Permanently Closed
Ellicott City, Maryland
Enchanted Forest Theme Park
Remnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mall.
Baltimore, Maryland
The Book Thing
This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.
Stonington, Connecticut
Severed Arm of Saint Edmund
How did the right arm of a 13th-century English bishop wind up in a Connecticut church?
Fishers Island, New York
North Dumpling Island
Want to build a wind turbine? Secede from the nation.
Groton, Connecticut
Gungywamp
The kind of mixed-up place that drives archaeologists crazy.
Washington, D.C.
National Capitol Columns
The Corinthian columns that towered over Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration stand proud.
