Places kensears37 Wants to Go

This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.

This public space is speckled with the eerie remnants of a defunct amusement park.

Sites connected to a woman born on a ship and spared by a pirate.

The poet's been ambling through these New York woods since 1940.

These whimsical works of art tell the story of the city's past and present.

A free display of artistic lifesize dinosaur sculptures in a backyard garden.

An abandoned gun-funded 19th century utopia.

This 1,700-pound edible sculpture is way better than your average chocolate mousse.

A lone historical marker off the highway and scattered debris are all that remain of this Cold War-era missile site.

This Catskills museum preserves stumps from the earliest known fossil forest on Earth.

The final resting place of a wealthy landowner who helped create the largest public park in Western Massachusetts.

This Cape Cod museum exhibits what it claims is the only authenticated pirate treasure in the world.

This petite park lets visitors see and touch examples of fossilized dinosaur tracks.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

Colorful clay cliffs tower over an unofficial nudist beach on Martha's Vineyard.

The first partially complete dinosaur skeleton was discovered here, forever changing the world's view of the ruling reptiles.

The first and only American institution dedicated to the enduring value of comedy in the United States.

The largest known open fault in the United States is basically a giant natural refrigerator.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

The gravestone of an eccentric Connecticut doctor features dinosaur tracks and a pair of fossil tree casts.

A super-sized promotional trick that is now a D.C. landmark.

A historic cemetery filled with quirky faux wood art and unique tombstones.

An innovative attempt to break a siege in the American Civil War still scars the earth today.

Live data is transmitted from the Atlantic coast to instantly recreate the ocean waves in this fountain at the NOAA headquarters.