Places Michael K Wants to Go

The famous abolitionist’s preserved estate is one of Washington's finest monuments to its great Black citizens.

The remains of a community that was forced to move for a dam that never materialized still rot in this Pennsylvania park.

Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.

A Civil War Museum with some notable medical antiques.

George Washington's dentures and Queen Victoria's dental instruments are in the nation’s official museum of the dental profession.

Meet the "Green Monster" of Monico, Wisconsin.

The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.

This little gem of a museum is a hidden jewel filled with prehistoric treasures.

This historic old movie house was the scene of one of the Blob's most iconic attacks.

Tour the sci-fi-esque reality of governmental disease management.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

A historic house in St. Louis was plagued by a series of suicides committed by family members involved in a successful brewery.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

Since 1956, this quintessentially New England seafood shack has been boiling its lobsters in seawater over wood fires.

The location where the American Revolution ended.

This unassuming home played a pivotal role in American history, essentially putting an end to the Revolutionary War.

Stone monument honoring a town founder has a witch-boot shaped stain and a curse to go with it.

The quaint little Vermont town played a quaint little Connecticut town in Tim Burton's "Beetlejuice."

The first transatlantic wireless communication between the U.S. and Europe took place here in 1903.

Alexander Hamilton’s creation caused quite a bit of controversy.

In the early 1800s, surgery was also a show.

Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.

America’s smallest national park site is the former residence of exiled Polish national hero Thaddeus Kosciuszko.