Places gdm584 Wants to Go

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.

The Burnside Fountain and its questionable interpretation.

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

An easy-to-miss garden in Boston's North End honors the mother of JFK and others who lost children in WWII.

Home to the Titanic Historical Society's collection.

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."

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

This massive tea kettle was once a promotional stunt for the Oriental Teashop.

35,000 grape hyacinths flow like water down a garden hill.

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

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

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

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

A massive tribute to this small county's top agricultural product.

This 13-foot smiling peanut in Georgia helped Jimmy Carter win the 1976 presidential election.

A vision of beautiful Hindu architecture in the middle of the American South.

Unicorns, elephants, and bears, oh my!

Built for television, this statue now serves as an unlikely memorial to a fireman who died on 9/11.

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

A giant telephone commemorates the last "crank" call ever made in the U.S.

Tucked away in a corner of a Maine general store there was a museum devoted to an equally beloved and reviled local soft drink.