Places happygrim Wants to Go

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

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

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

Constructed in 1676, this stone memorial is believed to be the oldest veteran's memorial in the United States.

Despite the name, this narrow bridge isn't very dangerous at all.

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

The stone sculpture of an Ottoman soldier is an homage to a lost Providence landmark.

The widow of Benjamin Franklin's brother became the first female newspaper editor in the United States.

The final resting place of the famous Rhode Island lighthouse keeper who heroically saved dozens of people from drowning.

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

This storybook New England home is actually a decommissioned lighthouse.

Oldest synagogue in the United States.

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

The only surviving fragment of the lost Narragansett Pier Casino.

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

This beach-side arcade is believed to be the oldest penny arcade in America.

From horses to stainless-steel trucks, this iconic Providence burger wagon is one of the oldest mobile diners in the country.

This lighthouse was witness to the end of WWII hostilities and now collects creepy cairns.

To avoid the demolition costs this abandoned drawbridge was simply left in the up position.