Places Edited by EB Savage

Site of an escape, ten murders, and some scalpings.

Murder scene memorialized in perpetuity by grisly obelisk.

A New England ghost town features a trail of boulders etched with intriguing life lessons.

The world's largest kaleidoscope, designed by a 1960s psychedelic artist.

A New England curiosity cabinet, one hundred years on.

Cheap art and political theater in Vermont.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

The kind of mixed-up place that drives archaeologists crazy.

A very big rock just plopped down in the New England woods.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

Unicorns, elephants, and bears, oh my!

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

Step inside Lucy, the world's largest "elephant."

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

Giant acorn-shaped 19th century gazebo from which suburban Washingtonians gazed upon the original "silver" spring.

An astounding collection of medical specimens, including bits of President Lincoln.