Places Opinicus Wants to Go

This beautiful Cape Cod beach offers dazzling views and an interesting historical footnote.

Whimsical cookie-themed plaques mark the birthplace of the Fig Newton.

This small shop walked so America could run on Dunkin'.

This museum shines a light on the true Pilgrim experience in North America.

Eliot was the first missionary to produce religious text for Algonquians in their own language.

This Gothic castle was inspired by Erik the Red's Viking residence at Brattahlid in Greenland.

These three lighthouses played a fundamental role in the maritime life of Eastham.

This tower commemorates the spot where George Washington hoisted the Grand Union flag.

Once the largest public hospital for the mentally ill was also surrounded by controversy.

Herman Melville wrote 'Moby Dick' in this landmark 18th-century house surrounded by farmland.

Hundreds of personalized inscribed planks make up this historic boardwalk.

All that remains of the Whittall mansion are the ruins of the formal garden and its pergola, dedicated to the late Matthew J. Whittall by his widow.

The classic Christmas carol was written at this Massachusetts tavern in 1850.

Believed by many to be the oldest surviving public monument in the United States.

A popular 19th-century natural landmark is now hidden within a sprawling forest.

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.

The first patented shaved-ice machine heralded a snowy wonderland of iced treats at a favorite New Orleans summer shack.

A relic from a forgotten bakery chain still spins atop a diner.

Santa Monica's oldest restaurant, decorated with set pieces from the Mutiny on the Bounty.

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

“It's the quality” (but probably also the drive-through donut tunnel) that has attracted diners since 1968.

The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.

The inventor of a number of hybrid corn species is immortalized with a field of giant corn.

An art deco ice cream shop covered in vintage tiles.