Places GerhardM Wants to Go

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

The world's oldest and largest museum of mass transit vehicles.

The first bell ever cast in Boston was cast by Paul Revere...and sounded terrible.

Tragedy on Little Brewster Island memorialized.

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

This headstone marks the grave of an 11-year-old boy killed during clashes in the streets over the boycotting of British goods.

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

One woman’s obsession gave birth to this lovely oddity at the Boston Public Library.

Island of trash twice the size of Texas floats in the Pacific.

A headstone notes where the most famous of Robin Hood's legendary Merry Men is reportedly buried.

A gas station has taken the place of the home of the 19th American President.

A single handprint, which, according to Ohio State University legend, cannot be scrubbed off.

A bronze of the man in all his sinewy glory celebrates his longtime connection to the Ohio city.

A small town museum celebrates the history of the Ohio county that produced Annie Oakley and other famous figures.

The final resting place of the most famous sharpshooter.

These sub-farmland caves are home to a majestic stalactite known as the "Crystal King."

In this relatively flat state the highest point is an honored place.

What is it about mushrooms that makes people wish they lived inside of them?

The largest earthwork effigy in the world.

Inside, ancient treasures. Outside, modern contradictions.

A memorial for an outsider theorist who believed that the planet is actually hollow.

Now in disrepair, this 19th century station was a stop on of the famed B&O Railroad.

This unincorporated community in western Ohio got its peculiar name from John "Daddy" Baker.

A miniature world of concrete and stone in Springfield, Ohio.