Places Gillian Wants to Go

A six-story-tall golden pyramid, surrounded by a moat.

"Iron Age" creatures fill this huckster's rusted metal sculpture garden.

Almost half-way between the Equator and North Pole.

This striking art museum holds an amazing series of curiosity cabinets.

Eternal resting place of the grave robber and murderer who served as inspiration for many of cinema’s famous madmen.

A museum celebrating the self-taught artist-environment builder.

Connecticut grave of the woman responsible for the Winchester Mystery House in California.

An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.

Mansion and shopping center used in the 1975 film "The Stepford Wives."

The mansion home of author Edith Wharton.

Haunted Victorian house that inspired a legendary "Ghostbusters" court ruling.

Adherence to strict Jewish laws is required to enter this ultra-conservative New York village.

The Hudson River School comes alive at this palatial estate.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

"Gnome Chomsky" was once the largest gnome in the world, but is now simply tall for his kind.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

The American Home, Re-imagined.

An office built to look like a giant basket.

The summer home of the largest colony of bats in the world.

Tour the oldest unrestored plantation house in America that is open to the public.

The home used in just a few seconds of film that came to define the setting of a hit sitcom.

Home of an evil witch famous within southern folklore.

The site of the tragic isolation of Nipmuc Native Americans left to perish in King Philip's War.

Massachusetts memorial to murder victim Elizabeth Short near the spot where she was born.