Places Opinicus Wants to Go

This boulder with a 200-word legal dedication to God has remained hidden in the woods for over 150 years.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

This headstone-like marker inscribed with three words has been an utter mystery for over a century.

At the supposed instruction of Ben Franklin and Socrates, a Spiritualist believer intended to birth a mechanical messiah here.

This historic graveyard monument is dedicated to a tragic victim of witch trial hysteria.

A New England ghost town features a trail of boulders etched with intriguing life lessons.

A small and quirky museum hidden inside a fence.

One of the last remaining World War II Victory Gardens in the U.S. is quietly growing across from Fenway Park.

A former Confederate hospital serves as a remembrance of wounded and dead soldiers.

This war hero's old shop remembers the fine line between medicine and quackery during the Revolutionary War.

Bubbling up from deep underground is the warm crystal clear water that fills the Warm Springs Pools, America's oldest spa.

An original apothecary from 1792.

A secretive collection featuring objects that were designed specifically for U.S. intelligence operations.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.

Exact replica of the ancient monument, but much, much lighter.

A rock outcropping left by a glacier that made itself useful throughout the centuries.

A lighthouse on a diminutive island was one of the first of its kind to guide seamen home.

Site of the creepy house used in Lucio Fulci's "The House by the Cemetery."

This delicate museum is devoted to the art and industry that once supported Cape Cod's oldest town.

This abandoned radar station from the Cold War era now only broadcasts a seriously ominous air of isolation.

Artifacts of whaling, with both its perils and adventure, are housed in this museum in a former candle factory.

A memorial sculpture to heath hens stands on the spot where the last heath hen, Booming Ben, was last seen.