Places GerhardM Wants to Go

A former Confederate hospital serves as a remembrance of wounded and dead soldiers.

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

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

The highest point in the state of New Hampshire, and while unlikely "the worst weather in the world," it sure seems that way to hikers.

3,200-square-foot mural inside Dartmouth Library depicts the history of America with images of human sacrifice, ancient gods, and other unspeakable terrors.

Come for the gun-toting hillbilly madman, stay for the ice-cream loving basketball bears.

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.

"Mock all and sundry things, but leave the saints alone."

This giant Boston statue of Mary is standing on a globe to show her power over the universe.

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

No one messes with the Massachusetts sacred cod, not this time...

This unusual building straddles two countries.

Maybe the only missile installed in a public park, this Cold War leftover was one of the first to carry a nuclear warhead.

This folk art dinosaur was almost pushed to extinction due to lack of a building permit.

The Vermont grave of a 4,000-year-old mummy prince.

A tomb with a window to ensure the interred wasn't buried alive.

A massive sustainable farm designed by the mastermind behind Central Park.

Tour the world's largest deep-hole dimension granite quarry, where you can view the plant where gravestones are made and roll a ball down the outdoor granite bowling alley.

This rare polygonal meeting house is rumored to be built in a circle so that the devil has nowhere to hide.

The highest peak in the state of Vermont has some interesting features.

Industrial ruin decimated this tiny New England company town in a fashion no one saw coming… and even fewer remember today.

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

A New England curiosity cabinet, one hundred years on.

One car at a time please.