Places katherineroland Wants to Go

It took 275 years and four burials to finally put the Mayflower’s most famous passenger to rest.

With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.

The world's largest indoor go-kart racetrack is hiding in Connecticut.

This small-town pizzeria won the Hollywood lottery.

For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.

A coastal rock outcrop with mysterious inscriptions variously attributed to Native Americans, Portuguese, Phoenicians, Norse, and more.

This fairy tale-themed amusement park is now abandoned, and childhood metaphors abound.

250-year-old farm now features sculptures, a petting zoo and a hippy-bazaar.

This blue behemoth of a bear is a colorful homage to Brown University's mascot.

To avoid the demolition costs this abandoned drawbridge was simply left in the up position.

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

Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.

This lighthouse was witness to the end of WWII hostilities and now collects creepy cairns.

An ancient cemetery with some historic bodies underfoot.

Off a hiking trail in Rhode Island stands a picturesque memorial to a long-forgotten war.

Abandoned Coast Artillery fort now serves as a graffiti canvas and sightseeing vantage point.

Only a shrine remains at the site of the catastrophic nightclub inferno that killed 100 Great White fans.

A single light illuminates one man's overshadowed contributions to street lamp history.

An unexpected Easter egg lurks in the background of a cherub wall relief at the Breakers mansion.

You can spend the night as an honorary lighthouse keeper in this quaint, historic beacon.

A railroad magnate's replica village has become home to a genetic seed bank for rare breeds of livestock.

Mysterious stone tower featured in many alternative histories of the New World.

This Rhode Island mansion was a stand-in for the exteriors of Collinwood in the original "Dark Shadows" series.

Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.