Places Funny Wants to Go

The flock of plastic poultry is an ode to the classic comedy staple.

The residents of the Neighborhood of Make-Believe live without much fanfare within the Pittsburgh Children's Museum.

Crammed into several rooms of a Staten Island home, this museum is a vodka-soaked paean to the pleasures of drinking.

This quaint museum in a long-running workshop is dedicated to a fixture in New Orleans lighting.

This museum-within-a-museum pays tribute to "The World's Most Experienced Airline."

Mobsters came for a soak in the hot springs, and stayed for the illegal gambling and bootlegging.

This historic house museum that celebrates one of the world's most influential social reformers is also one of the most haunted locations in Chicago.

"Try not to knock anything over!"

Like stepping into a spooky fairy-tale, this shop carries the dark ideas of artists and other makers.

This tiny church near Sleepy Hollow contains Henri Matisse's last work, a rose window, and nine windows by Marc Chagall.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

The highest point in Delaware is located under a trailer so this marker across the street will have to do.

The "Sultan of Swat" once attended a school at the site of this baseball field.

Walk through the history of American pop culture.

This grove was planted more than a century ago by the War Mothers of World War I.

One artist’s scheme to expand museum viewing hours into the evening led to the illumination of an entire city.

At this former Prohibition speakeasy, electric birds signaled the arrival of hooch.

This lovely tree was a thank you gift from the man known as "Public Enemy No.1."

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

The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.

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

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.