Places mementogorey Wants to Go

An easy-to-miss plaque marks the building that first held this 19th-century telephone innovation.

A journey through a curious collection of oddities and wonder.

The remnants of a 19th-century ironmaking complex hidden in the woods of Connecticut.

The oldest place in Hartford is a cemetery with thousands of bodies stacked beneath the grass.

A quirky assortment of musical marvels from around the world.

Inside a state forest, the forgotten remains of a Cold War defensive installation.

This stunning Connecticut mansion is actually just a one-room-deep hoax.

A museum designed by and dedicated to P.T. Barnum in the town where he is buried.

Quirky castle designed by the American actor best known for portraying Sherlock Holmes on stage.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

The final resting place of one member of the Amistad slave revolt who never made it back home.

An abandoned Depression-era zoo hidden just off the highway.