Places nancybdeol Wants to Go

The final resting place of the famous Rhode Island lighthouse keeper who heroically saved dozens of people from drowning.

The widow of Benjamin Franklin's brother became the first female newspaper editor in the United States.

This historic Rhode Island mini-cemetery features a number of headstones run through with mysterious holes.

The Atlantis of Cape Cod reemerges during the lowest of tides.

More than a century of radio history is told in these displays.

The final resting place of New England's last "vampire."

The Vermont grave of a 4,000-year-old mummy prince.

Built to bless whalers before their voyages, this Massachusetts church now features a ship-shaped pulpit.

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

A 19th-century smallpox cemetery is being reclaimed by scrub forest and sand dunes.

This locally-famous crevasse in New York State is icy all year round.

This 50-foot rock formation looked like a face that was once believed to be that of a Native American chief.

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.

A museum dedicated to the quirky and colorful world created by Springfield's favorite son.

Two distinctive homes on a New England village green look like a couple of frosted wedding cakes.

As state highpoints go, this spot is one of the lowest, but for years it was also the hardest to climb.

The vaguely man-shaped root that ate the body of the founder of Rhode Island.

To avoid the demolition costs this abandoned drawbridge was simply left in the up position.

This blue behemoth of a bear is a colorful homage to Brown University's mascot.

An unusual library of dead things at the Rhode Island School of Design.

This sprawling 18th-century cemetery features unique and beautiful gravestones, including one shaped like a tree.

More than 200 unconventional musical instruments that anyone can play.

Resonating tubes make music from highway overpass.

The railroad tunnel nicknamed the "Bloody Pit" for taking the lives of hundreds during its construction.