Places jennysgreatapt Wants to Go

A museum dedicated to Nantucket's legacy as the "graveyard of the Atlantic."

The island home of an unlucky whaling captain whose story inspired a great American novel.

A pig barn converted into one of the most eclectic residences in Nantucket.

Everyone's favorite neighbor is remembered fondly in this small-town church.

Artifacts of whaling, with both its perils and adventure, are housed in this museum in a former candle factory.

Visit a sweet shop selling one of the first candies ever made and sold in America.

A museum dedicated exclusively to the lore and history of ouija boards.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.

The Wright Tavern is possibly the most important building in Concord Massachusetts to the American Revolution.

This small museum is an eccentric shrine to boyhood in the 1960s.

A journey through a curious collection of oddities and wonder.

This Connecticut chapel is a starkly modern, and surprisingly colorful, architectural rebel.

An actual piece of the Moon, brought down to Earth by Apollo 15.

An easy-to-miss plaque marks the building that first held this 19th-century telephone innovation.

An abandoned gun-funded 19th century utopia.

This stunning Connecticut mansion is actually just a one-room-deep hoax.

Who knew the Devil's domain was a hot spot for tubing?

Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.

A former Tibetan monk made a name for himself selling some of the best beef momos in New York.

No monkeying around, this fountain was really named after the classic sci-fi film.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

Final resting place of two dozen New York City harbor ships.