Places Just Pete Wants to Go

Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.

Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

The home of one of America's most beloved fictional characters has become a real world landmark.

A lake with hundreds of ancient skeletons surrounding it. The surprise is what killed them.

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

The vaguely man-shaped root that ate the body of the founder of Rhode Island.

This 3,500 pound obelisk was constructed with more than 1,000 reclaimed guns.

Last residence of H.P. Lovecraft featured in his story "The Haunter of the Dark."

Final resting place of one of the classic authors of horror literature.

Books bound in human skin and H. P. Lovecraft's letters are among a few of the treasures this library has to offer.

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."

On the windswept Dakota plains there is a memorial to circus workers who were struck down by lightning.

This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.

Known as the "Cross At The Crossroads," this massive metal cross is just short enough to avoid the FAA.

What may be America's largest classic video game arcade lurks inconspicuously in a Chicago suburb.

A bit of the Berlin Wall was gifted to the Icelandic capital to commemorate the 25th anniversary of German reunification.

This monument to one of the largest science fiction games of all time bears the names of hundreds of thousands of players.

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.

The site of Billy the Kid’s most famous escape and the end to the Lincoln County War.