Places kheimlicher Wants to Go

A controversial magical figure is hidden within a diorama of the city.

Want to build a wind turbine? Secede from the nation.

Antique gaffe kept in the basement of a small Vermont natural history museum.

An iconic steel and chrome diner from the 1940s left empty for nearly 20 years is in danger of being demolished.

How did the right arm of a 13th-century English bishop wind up in a Connecticut church?

Underground tunnels remain beneath this abandoned mental asylum.

The ruins of an abandoned 18th-century town that is slowly being reclaimed by the forest.

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.

A museum dedicated to the quirky and colorful world created by Springfield's favorite son.

A 12,000-year-old bog boasting rare plants and fauna.

The proud hometown of an American legend has honored their favorite son with what seems to be a gravestone.

This old mill and former police station now present a world-class collection of Orthodox iconography.

On top of Gibbet Hill lie the ruins of a lavish turn-of-the-century estate that never quite came to be.

A Medieval Water Tower in the Heart of Massachusetts.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

Expertly restored pinball machines as far as the eye can see.

Supposed Massachusetts Grave of a pre-Columbus Knight Templar.

Ornate and macabre headstone in one of the country's oldest cemeteries.

Rumored to have tormented a family in the late 1960s, this toy now resides in a quiet little oddities shop.

Tragedy on Little Brewster Island memorialized.

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

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

Located in a beautifully restored ice house, this museum is the result of decades of hard work and devotion to the craft of plumbing.

Murder scene memorialized in perpetuity by grisly obelisk.