Places donnatalarico Wants to Go

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

This upscale streetwear store is hidden behind a fake Snapple machine in the back of a deli.

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

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

The red brick house where the father of rock 'n' roll wrote some of his classic hits.

A historic house in St. Louis was plagued by a series of suicides committed by family members involved in a successful brewery.

One of Chicago's last seafood smokehouses perfects a dying breed of fishcraft.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

A monument celebrating the Black soldiers of the 9th and 10th Cavalry.

This historic railroad hotel built from Kansas limestone was once the most popular hotels for traveling salesmen in the midwest.

This small museum contains fossils from an era when Kansas was underwater.

Once an ancient sea, this landscape of rocky ravines is filled with the fossils of ancient marine life.

This historic early-20th-century building still boasts some of its original features.

Enjoy a tour of oddities and makeshift monsters at this souvenir store with an offbeat sense of humor.

Hundreds of samples of "Devil's Rope" hide in a defunct vintage elevator.

A museum documents the development of the invention that tamed the Wild West.

A college in rural Kansas founded to prepare the country for an impending World War III.

This lesser-known geographic marker was the reference point for all surveys of the continent for 75 years.

The 55-pound trichobezoar was removed from the stomach of a cow.

A statue high in a hill that represents how Buffalo Bill got his name.

A unique blue and yellow phone booth in America's "Little Sweden."

A museum where visitors can learn about greyhounds and (more importantly) pet them.