Places DrChopSuey Wants to Go

A careful eye can find hundreds of dinosaur tracks running along the Connecticut River.

This historic graveyard monument is dedicated to a tragic victim of witch trial hysteria.

This tiny, painted door at the base of a tree stump has been a fixture of the Harvard University campus for decades.

Located just behind a quiet residential neighborhood, this is ground zero for the Salem witchcraft hysteria of 1692.

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.

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.

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

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

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

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

A popular 19th-century natural landmark is now hidden within a sprawling forest.

The birth home of one of cinema's legendary actresses.

The Mysterious Witch Bonney, a haunted statue in an old industrial city.

This narrow canyon has been carved by the river over thousands of years into spectacular and curious forms.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

Brain collection and database that narrows the gap between man and animal.

The house and graveyard used in the Stephen King spine-chiller.

The highest point in Maine is a grand gift to the state citizens that also happens to be one end of the Appalachian Trail.

The monument dedicated to Phineas Gage in the town where his accident happened.

An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.

An abandoned 1920s school with a mysterious history.

This rural community has attracted both scientists and techno-refugees due to its federally-mandated lack of technology.