Places marilynljanes Wants to Go

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.

Hidden on the seventh floor of a historic building, this Cajun spot features wall-to-wall bottles of hot sauce.

No passport is required to eat around the world at this elegant restaurant.

The menus here are a love letter to the culinary history of New Orleans.

This burger joint is named after everyone's favorite carnival prize and is adorned with a giant one over the door.

Not even a series of devastating fires could keep this odd castle in upstate New York from bouncing back.

This small-town pizzeria won the Hollywood lottery.

Rochester's signature culinary delicacy.

This one-man homegrown eatery may be the world's most exclusive restaurant with its five-year waiting list.

The first KFC is on the National Register of Historic Places.

A quirky Poe-themed joint on an island keen to celebrate its overlooked connection to the famous writer.

Asheville, North Carolina, was the the second place in the world to enjoy Kentucky Fried Chicken's secret recipe.

Come for the Italian food, stay for the taxidermy and giant statues.

The graves of a Connecticut family thought to have been plagued by a vampire.

The headquarters of the famous Yale society.

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.

A macabre farm reserved part of its 222-acres for dead bodies, all in the name of science.

Connecticut grave of the woman responsible for the Winchester Mystery House in California.

Final resting place of a New Haven urban legend.

The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.