Places harlowwhite Wants to Go

137 graves holding New England's earliest residents.

A museum designed by and dedicated to P.T. Barnum in the town where he is buried.

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

While many places make the claim, the Library of Congress says this restaurant is the birthplace of the hamburger.

An archival collection of over 2,200 case studies which includes human brain specimens and tumor specimens.

A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.

Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

The intriguing personal collection of a professional demon-chaser.

"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."

Roman politician Herodes Atticus built this nymphaeum to honor his wife, whom he may have murdered.

One of the four sanctuaries of Rieti's Holy Valley was the site of the first living nativity scene.

A 17th-century doorway in a small Sabine village is a portal into the mysteries of alchemy.

This Bronze Age burial mound used to be called "Robin Hood’s Piss-Pot" until it was renamed by spoilsport Victorians.

The ruins of this temple were later chosen by Pope Celestine V to found an abbey and a hermitage.

A semi-abandoned village destroyed by U.S. bombings during World War II dominates the valley of Turano.

The marshy karst plain has reclaimed this beautiful 17th-century church.

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

Templar knights fleeing persecution are said to have left this sword in stone as a landmark in 1307.

A geological wonder that helped fuel myths of trolls and giants.

This peaceful oasis appears dreamy, but it's also the site of a nightmarish legend.

Former host to the World Elephant Polo Championships.

A plaque by the roadside describes a three-dimensional glossary of an imagined language where words are numbers and numbers are words.

Riding on a pair of architectural dragons, this Thailand temple holds murals full of lurid imagery.