Places megkaczynski Wants to Go

This restaurant offers a side of antiques, curios, and a bathroom chock full of owls.

Its vintage camera collection gives a snapshot of the past as viewed through a photographic lens.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

A quiet, gothic haven nestled between Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill and Point Breeze neighborhoods.

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

Like stepping into a spooky fairy-tale, this shop carries the dark ideas of artists and other makers.

A collection of full-size movie monsters opened to the public.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

This historic graveyard monument is dedicated to a tragic victim of witch trial hysteria.

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

Located just behind a quiet residential neighborhood, this is ground zero for the Salem witchcraft hysteria of 1692.

This Gothic castle was inspired by Erik the Red's Viking residence at Brattahlid in Greenland.

These tourist trap caverns are said to be the former home of a legendary Pennsylvania Hermit.

In the woods of New Jersey lie the ruins of a munitions village abandoned after World War I and the remnants of a 1920s wooden racetrack.

This stunning home looks like it belongs in medieval Europe, not North Carolina.

Wander through more than 20,000 square feet filled with an amazing collection of orchids.

The scene of the largest surrender of Confederate troops at the end of the American Civil War.

The U.S. Supreme Court's secret Cold War relocation facility in the mountains of North Carolina.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

North Carolina's finest examples of Native American pictographs have survived for 5,000 years.

One of the best places to see wild Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.

A sculptor's dream castle turned fantastical ruin.