Places helenthemelon25 Wants to Go

Step back in time here, as the old world and new world meet.

A monument park dedicated to the influential Beat Generation author and poet, Jack Kerouac.

A stone marker dedicated to a Black veteran of the American Revolution who refused to leave his land near Walden Pond.

This historic hotel was once home to Henry David Thoreau and rumored to be haunted by ghosts of fallen soldiers from the American Revolution.

This plaque honors the unsung Black songstress once known as the “greatest singer of her race.”

Dedicated to one of the world's first Black international, athletic superstars.

A spooky and decrepit mental health facility is slowly being replaced with newer digs.

This miniature feudal castle was built on a whim to honor a US Navy pioneer.

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

The monument is inscribed, "To Sagamore John and those Mystic Indians Whose Bones Lie Here”.

The aviator lived here from 1924 until she became the first woman to cross the Atlantic by airplane in 1928.

An inn older than the Witch Trials.

A monument to the Turkish librarian who delivered books on the back of a donkey.

The statue of a cursed knight is said to come to life every 100 years.

A quartet of temple guardian statues that allegedly cry at night for being forbidden from wrestling.

This statue in Civitavecchia recreates a famous photograph from the end of World War II in massive scale.

A statue commemorating the perilous journey made by the monks who delivered the body of St. Cuthbert.

Created in 1935 as a small gift for those who donated to a charity drive, this little wooden soldier became the symbol of a German town.

This larger-than-life lime green gummy bear sits in the middle of a roundabout in Spain.

A bold and controversial statue of a Christmas icon, blending adult undertones with playful humor, stands year-round in a traffic circle.

A statue of Schiedam's beloved gin mascot.

A bizarre representation of our ever forward moving society.

One of two Southern California statues celebrating “The Duke,” this one towers over a Beverly Hills sidewalk.

Surgeon, scholar, activist, eccentric. This statue remembers a curious figure in Wales’ history.