Places erinmawn9 Wants to Go

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

Ruins of a historic medical facility sits eerily by the water.

This abandoned psychiatric hospital once housed more than 4,000 patients in the middle of a quaint New England town.

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

An Escher-inspired library dedicated to the wonders of the human mind, yet closed to the public.

Toy museum in a former tavern is the expression of one man's life pursuit of the aesthetic power of cartoon imagery.

Trinkets and toys lovingly handmade by maximum security prisoners.

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

They call buildings like this "mimetic architecture," but nothing has ever mimicked the taste of Moxie.

A restored historic movie theater is the perfect place for a regional film archive.

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

A dollhouse full of taxidermy rodents, each one handcrafted and given a sordid past.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.

The walkable ruins of an 19th century hotel, destroyed in a horse cremation gone wrong.

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

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

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

A dilapidated dock tells the story of Titanic’s missed arrival.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.