Places donnatalarico Wants to Go

A famed data visualizer's personal sculpture garden is a landscape of modern and megalithic wonders.

The once abandoned ruins of a Victorian beachside amusement park are now back in working order.

With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.

A former copper mine which became a truly unsuccessful prison.

A seasonal movie monster museum featuring wax creations by a relative of one of the original Universal Studios monsters.

A museum designed by and dedicated to P.T. Barnum in the town where he is buried.

The ancient past meets the retro-future at these dinosaur tracks that are protected by a geodesic dome.

Quirky castle designed by the American actor best known for portraying Sherlock Holmes on stage.

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

Ironically this massive termite is the mascot for a company that is acclaimed for killing his kind.

The only surviving fragment of the lost Narragansett Pier Casino.

Abandoned Coast Artillery fort now serves as a graffiti canvas and sightseeing vantage point.

An unusual library of dead things at the Rhode Island School of Design.

A virtually untouched "home on the hill" for the flora and fauna of Rhode Island.

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

Decommissioned NYC subway cars are dumped into the ocean to create this underwater wildlife habitat.

These old doors are covered in the signatures of Rehoboth Beach artists dating back to the 1930s.

A wrecked ship dating back to the American Revolution was only recently discovered off the Delaware coast.

Dating to 1793, this is the oldest building in Poolesville.

A relic of FDR's brief foray into utopian urban planning.

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

Remnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mall.

A well-worn trail through thick woods in northern Montgomery County leads to an old schoolhouse.

Once the center of a thriving early Black community called Martinsburg.