Places jameth15 Wants to Go

Unusual books about food and drink abound in this 19th-century New York townhouse.

Inside this magical collection, you can buy recipes cooked up by church ladies, motorcycle clubs, and clowns.

A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

Taxidermied cartoon heads, unseen illustrations, and famous characters all reside in this small gallery space.

This sprawling bookstore spans four floors and has more than a million books in stock.

All that remains of this Massachusetts town, demolished in the name of progress, is a stone marker.

The ruins of a Massachusetts prison farm can still be found crumbling the woods of a state park.

The pleasant woodland cemetery that has inspired more than its fair share of wild legends.

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

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

Legend has it that President Grant’s frequent drinking in the lobby gave rise to the term “lobbyist.”

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

A new kind of theme park for adults off the Las Vegas Strip.

A theme park attraction designed to turn your children into LARPers.

A store full of vintage and indie toys designed to bring out the kid in even the crustiest of adults.

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

In the middle of suburban Staten Island, a nearly 150-year-old bakery is preserving the art of a disappearing New York treat.

This abandoned dream castle and its cemetery look out over the city that once inspired their creation.

There are more than 4 million bricks inside this unofficial Lego museum in a former middle school.

Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.

The museum calls itself the "National Museum of the Paranormal" and is full of eerie oddities.

The only pachinko parlor in the United States.

The rock on which Moll Dyer was found frozen to death is said to still bear her handprint.