Places LeslieB Wants to Go

Historic seaside park featuring explorable, abandoned military structures.

The final resting place of New England's last "vampire."

Once the largest attraction in Rhode Island, this former amusement park is now a gorgeous coastal state park.

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

Founded in 1788, this Rhode Island institution is the oldest operating general store in America.

Unicorns, elephants, and bears, oh my!

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

The secluded beach getaway from Wes Anderson's dreamy summer romance.

This historic Rhode Island mini-cemetery features a number of headstones run through with mysterious holes.

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

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

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

The final resting place of the famous Rhode Island lighthouse keeper who heroically saved dozens of people from drowning.

The widow of Benjamin Franklin's brother became the first female newspaper editor in the United States.

The first newspaper printed by an expeditionary force was published in this colonial mansion.

Designed to not only to represent the history of the local community but also, the future.

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

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

First established in 1696, this settlement was abandoned after the Revolutionary War.

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

What started as three small gnomes at the base of a tree has grown into a full-blown gnome home.

Loyal fans of one television's most famous painters still come to pay their respects.

A vast array of tropical plants collected by a vacationing couple.

Strange beasts lurking in a garden are all that remain of a quirky, short-lived theme park.