Places nancybdeol Wants to Go

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

A mysterious collection of stones stand outside a small New England town.

The only certified Trappist brewery outside of Europe hides in the central Massachusetts hills.

This New England drive-in was built to straddle the border between two states.

Surrounded by lonely toys, this Massachusetts gravestone marks the final resting place of six children who were murdered by poverty.

Locals say Williams' ghost still haunts the place where she was murdered.

This tall Massachusetts folly got its name thanks to all of the purple prose its vistas inspired.

The final resting place of a wealthy landowner who helped create the largest public park in Western Massachusetts.

Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.

The largest collection of historic military firearms in the United States.

The mighty room where the poet spent most of her life is available to rent for an hour or two.

This exhibit is one of the largest and most well-preserved collections of Jurassic-era trackways in the United States.

The owner of one of the oldest homes in Amherst had a unique request before the home could be turned into a museum.

A careful eye can find hundreds of dinosaur tracks running along the Connecticut River.

A single room pays homage to the prodigious achievements of the 30th President of the United States.

A 60-room castle constructed by a horse-racing heir.

This elaborate High Victorian Gothic structure is one of the world's few 16-sided buildings.

This stained glass window designed by Tiffany Studios is hidden behind the circulation desk of a public library.

Stay at this storybook estate, featuring Sir Henry Hudson Kitson's masterpiece "Gingerbread House."

A fire station-turned-church-turned-museum dedicated to the work of seminal light artist Dan Flavin.

A beautiful, creepy 19th-century castle stands incongruously in rural Vermont.

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

A serene temple with stunning stained glass hides in downtown Dallas.

The first and only museum dedicated to stained glass and horology opened outside of Chicago in 2017.