Places halfLight7 Wants to Go

Discover the magic in the mundane in Iceland's Museum of Everyday Life.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

Eerie ruins of an abandoned medieval fishing village crumble atop an unforgiving stretch of earth.

Walk in the footsteps of the gods and straddle two tectonic plates.

How would you like to dine in the same room where some of the Titanic's victims were embalmed?

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

Overgrown ruins of a turn of the century island fort that sees very few visitors.

A collection of full-size movie monsters opened to the public.

Scene of the grisly murder of two Norwegian women in 1873.

An obelisk marks the farmhouse where the founder of Mormonism was born.

One car at a time please.

A New England curiosity cabinet, one hundred years on.

Inside this old mill is a collection of images that will always remain frozen in time.

A sign marks the location of an 18th-century sawmill allegedly owned by a wizard who employed Satanic imps.

America's post-nuclear-attack chambers of Congress.

This harrowing climb along West Virginia's jagged spires is one of the only Via Ferrata on America's east coast.

Hikers can still stroll beneath the long conveyer of this abandoned mining facility hidden in a West Virginia river gorge.

The world's largest fully steerable radio telescope.

A lighthouse on this West Virginia lake started as a joke, then the forces of nature helped make it a reality.

This former fire tower is now a rustic observatory that offers amazing views of eagles, hawks, and the Appalachian Mountains.

Home of a 28-foot tall stalagmite known as the War Club.

A storefront museum in Asbury Park honoring the Jersey Shore’s deep history of mystery—including the Jersey Devil.

This natural crater along the coast of Jersey may take its name from the devil statues who have watched over it.

An extraordinary collection of vampire-themed antiques lurks on the second floor of a store.