Places erinmawn9 Wants to Go

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

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

A grotesque Fiji merman dwells within this traditional Dutch-style building.

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

A desiccated merman and a walrus penis bone are among the oddities in this eclectic collection of shipwreck treasures.

A blend of art, antiquities, and Americana fill this museum, surrounded by whimsical, enchanting gardens.

The historic home still shows the scars from a little run-in with the British in 1813.

An indoor miniature village and labor of love for Laurence Geiringer, a model railroad enthusiast.

In the early 1800s, surgery was also a show.

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

A stone arch leads to a cavernous 1930s spring house tucked away in the Pennsylvania woods.

This might just be the TARDIS of bookstores.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

Wedged between two sets of row houses is an awkwardly located family graveyard.

A model home in the Medical Examiner's Office in which grisly death scenes are staged to train forensic investigators.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

The library of every book lover's dreams.

Museum dedicated to the struggles of the disabled.

A room hidden behind a swinging shelf in the children's section.

This "common-as-dirt" museum celebrates the glory of normalcy.

The childhood home of the meat inspector who would become the face of America.

A short nature trail winds through the greatest works of poet Robert Frost.

The universally beloved children's television figure is interred on a high hilltop in one of western Pennsylvania's oldest cemeteries.