Places nikisb Wants to Go

The ancient past meets the retro-future at these dinosaur tracks that are protected by a geodesic dome.

An overgrown and abandoned tuberculosis ward resides in the midst of a quaint modern neighborhood.

The early American colonists were such ferocious drinkers the law actually required every town to have a tavern.

This Connecticut chapel is a starkly modern, and surprisingly colorful, architectural rebel.

A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.

An abandoned gun-funded 19th century utopia.

Ruins of a historic medical facility sits eerily by the water.

Amazing views of Long Island Sound can be seen from this mountaintop tower.

A one stop shop for one-of-a-kind antiques, artifacts, and rare oddities sourced from across the globe.

137 graves holding New England's earliest residents.

Read between the lines of the subway map to find the hidden abandoned Civil War fort.

The oldest platform carousel built in the United States continues to delight children in Martha’s Vineyard.

Martha's Vineyard's most beloved speakeasy sells late-night pastries.

A red brick monolith is all that remains of New England’s first commercial brickyard.

Colorful clay cliffs tower over an unofficial nudist beach on Martha's Vineyard.

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg’s famous shark movie.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

A museum dedicated to Nantucket's legacy as the "graveyard of the Atlantic."

A cabinet of funerary art and death culture hidden inside an oddities shop.

A cemetery where many of those buried had a flair for the dramatics.

This marker tells the story of a town’s toxic past.

Largest magic museum in the United States with more than half a million pieces of memorabilia.

In addition to the usual gravestones, this Michigan cemetery features a birdhouse mausoleum and an Ark of the Covenant replica.