Places jocelyngould Wants to Go

The early American colonists were such ferocious drinkers the law actually required every town to have a tavern.

A charming museum of natural history featuring dioramas and exhibits made entirely by college students.

Sculptures, jams, and the wild west collide at this folksy retreat.

A precariously balanced rock perches on the edge of a cliff created tens of thousands of years ago by glacial erosion.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

The remains of an ancient Roman teenager are memorialized at the base of a modern London landmark.

A student driver's nightmare.

Small island science organization offers public the chance to participate in research.

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

Twice a day one of these tragic bronze mariners drowns with the tide to remember all those the sea has taken.

A partially hidden wall graffitied by spectators of the 1976 Bicentennial, recently rediscovered.

Hiroshima survivor on Riverside Drive.

A Gothic-style abode built to accommodate the church's three resident peacocks.

A curious fountain that has no water and includes Satan, a crab, and 9 giraffes.

This was one of the first (and last) university-built and operated nuclear reactors.

A tiny monument to the classic American candy.

America's "second most important bell" is a contentious spoil of the Civil War.

A steampunk wonderland that preserves America's history of industrial innovation.

The city of Halifax still bears the scars of the largest explosion prior to the atomic bomb.

At the supposed instruction of Ben Franklin and Socrates, a Spiritualist believer intended to birth a mechanical messiah here.

Turns out you can see the world without ever leaving Maine.

No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.

Manhattan's lighthouse, erected at the insistence of the unsinkable Molly Brown.

Monument to a forgotten NYC disaster that claimed the lives of 1,000.