Places lefant14 Wants to Go

Fossilized sea bottom and lime quarry.

Two distinctive homes on a New England village green look like a couple of frosted wedding cakes.

This picturesque cottage was the site of Ulysses S. Grant’s final and perhaps most important campaign.

The building that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House."

The first transatlantic wireless communication between the U.S. and Europe took place here in 1903.

The largest recovered section of Titanic sits in a hotel in Las Vegas.

This historic Massachusetts tavern played a critical role in the start of the American Revolution.

These beautiful garden buildings are among the oldest surviving greenhouses in the United States.

Of all the unique artifacts inside this library, a mummified hand stands out among the others.

Tales of ghosts, cryptids, and true crime rise from the murky waters of the largest freshwater wetland in Massachusetts.

J.R.R Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and other "Inklings" met at the Oxford pub to discuss the now legendary fantasy stories they were writing.

A restaurant with an extensive Irish whiskey bar also has several first editions of famous works by Irish authors.

A surreal, interdimensional shopping center and portal to another universe by Meow Wolf.

The Inuit kayak from Robert Peary's 1896 expedition to Greenland is now on display at a local library.

A rock outcropping left by a glacier that made itself useful throughout the centuries.

A 13,000-year-old mastodon skeleton was found during the construction of a 19th-century New York mill.

A Harvard-area eatery preserves the uncovered tiles of its century-old predecessor.

An unassuming island in the middle of the Hudson that hosts campers, including Aleister Crowley.

"Gnome Chomsky" was once the largest gnome in the world, but is now simply tall for his kind.

This mouldering abandoned mental hospital was once a center for progressive healing.

Homemade rockets, dinosaurs, and robots make this New York small business much more than a furniture store.

"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

What was once a trend-setting, phrase-coining icon of architectural splendor is now a rotting, forgotten hulk.