Places Huwbie Wants to Go

The largest collection of historic military firearms in the United States.

The oldest brick saltbox house in America.

A rock outcropping left by a glacier that made itself useful throughout the centuries.

This former burial ground, built atop discarded ballast from cargo ships, is now a public park.

Every December the Wannalancit Mills lights a Christmas Tree over the old mill's smokestack.

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

The remains of what was once the world's steepest passenger funicular.

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, one of the great Victorian engineers, was the driving force behind the short-lived atmospheric railway.

Since 1929, millions have sought miraculous healing and solace from this unknown yet deeply revered Irish priest.

This giant Boston statue of Mary is standing on a globe to show her power over the universe.

This small glass cube is a peaceful out-of-the-way sanctuary at the busy airport.

A dedication plaque on this Boston tunnel is a microcosm of a massive, controversy-laden construction project.

One car at a time please.

A strange, heartwarming, decades-old declaration of love on a New Hampshire roadside.

Generations of rockhounds got their start at this beloved, historic mine.

Monument on the spot where in 1778, Bathsheba Spooner had her husband Joshua killed and dumped down his own well.

This is the house that spite built.

Alabama has a fiberglass Stonehenge. With apologies to Spinal Tap, this one is full-size.

On top of Gibbet Hill lie the ruins of a lavish turn-of-the-century estate that never quite came to be.

A lonely memorial to the Challenger Space Shuttle, honoring the astronauts who died in 1986.

Nobody's quite sure who erected this monument marking the spot where a gray wolf was shot and killed.

This unassuming stone commemorates a condiment factory gone up in smoke.

This Massachusetts home was the first to have a telephone line and its own phone number: 1.

This Gothic castle was inspired by Erik the Red's Viking residence at Brattahlid in Greenland.