Places ncmerritt Wants to Go

This Rhode Island mansion was a stand-in for the exteriors of Collinwood in the original "Dark Shadows" series.

This Pennsylvania cave holds evidence of the oldest known inhabitants of North America.

10,500 square feet of pinball housed in former dollar store and home to the last playable "Thunderball."

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.

The lecture hall where Alexander Graham Bell first demonstrated the long-distance phone call.

A quiet memorial marks the spot where the victims of the Salem Witch Trials were executed.

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."

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

The world's largest fully steerable radio telescope.

Near-constant high winds deform the trees on Spruce Knob, the highest point in West Virginia.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.

A single light illuminates one man's overshadowed contributions to street lamp history.

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

Mysterious stone tower featured in many alternative histories of the New World.

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."