Places GeneralWaffles Wants to Go

Walk a trail through a historic Quaker town that outlawed slavery in 1777 and was a major waypoint on the Underground Railroad.

An intricately designed junk art house with four extravagant junk art cars hidden in the suburbs.

A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

It’s not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music’s library has been described as a “cathedral of books.”

Founded in 1788, this Rhode Island institution is the oldest operating general store in America.

The site of the largest mass execution in Rhode Island history, haunted by the ghosts of hanged pirates.

This fairy tale-themed amusement park is now abandoned, and childhood metaphors abound.

A safe space and resource for anything and everything relating to sex and sexuality.

The place where Samuel "Slater the Traitor" brought the Industrial Revolution to America.

An unexpected Easter egg lurks in the background of a cherub wall relief at the Breakers mansion.

Ironically this massive termite is the mascot for a company that is acclaimed for killing his kind.

The second oldest Jewish graveyard in the U.S. is tiny, with connections to George Washington and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Rhode Island's tallest building bears a resemblance to the "Daily Planet" building and has been empty for more than five years.

Oldest synagogue in the United States.

An architecturally unique lighthouse that had to be lifted up and moved to avoid falling in the sea.

A giant green dragon crawls down from the roof of the Providence Children's Museum.

Eco-friendly island mansion.

Off a hiking trail in Rhode Island stands a picturesque memorial to a long-forgotten war.

A 60-room castle constructed by a horse-racing heir.

The only surviving fragment of the lost Narragansett Pier Casino.

This cemetery is home to numerous granite headstones that are works of art unto themselves.

The vaguely man-shaped root that ate the body of the founder of Rhode Island.

As state highpoints go, this spot is one of the lowest, but for years it was also the hardest to climb.