Places mcdermany Wants to Go

Welcome to the world's only museum dedicated to the Ukranian Easter egg.

A museum where visitors can learn about greyhounds and (more importantly) pet them.

This collection of Japanese luck idols beckons visitors with over 2,000 waving paws.

This narrow shop in the East Village hosts a matchmaking service for the new millennium.

This restaurant has been a haven for D.C.'s LGBTQ community since the 1950s.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

A pink cottage covered in hearts served as a haven and a resting place for LGBTQ activists.

A progressive LGBTQ hub offers dancing, HIV testing, art, and more.

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

This historic motel standing at the "crossroads of America" offers a radio in every room and was saved by local protesters.

Helen Keller once broke ground on this historic center for the study of technologies to benefit the hearing impaired.

A museum dedicated exclusively to the lore and history of ouija boards.

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

Experience the hysteria of a 17th century witch hunt through goofy reenactments and wax dummies that should probably be burned at the stake.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

The artist David Nash planted a circle of trees in 1977.

Accessible only at low tide, the deserted island is dotted with World War II ruins.

This submersible road connecting a French island to the mainland is lined with safety towers for when the tide strands travelers.

This is the house that spite built.

The narrowest house in America is seven feet of pure spite.

A former department store turned into a quirky restaurant.

Thousands of Mexican Free-Tailed Bats soar around an abandoned storm drain at sunset each summer.

This rustic cabin, outfitted with gun slits, was once home to John D. Tewksbury, patriarch of the bloodiest family feud in American history.