Places Opinicus Wants to Go

The Atlantis of Cape Cod reemerges during the lowest of tides.

The Cape Cod house that whaling built.

A pair of 7-foot legs belonging to the military man of the Mayflower stand jauntily by the side of the road.

The statue of John Harvard isn't actually John Harvard—or even, technically, the founder of the school.

Sacks of potatoes, made of cast stone, mark where the iconic potato sheds once stood along the river.

Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.

This railroad tunnel was once the longest in Massachusetts.

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

This replica small town lets visitors take a stroll through the story of progress in the U.S. via thousands of Americana artifacts.

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

The first bell ever cast in Boston was cast by Paul Revere...and sounded terrible.

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

A sacred lake composed of over 300 separate pools of highly concentrated minerals.

A Scottish manor with a history of mysterious fires, magic, and eccentric tales

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

A centuries-old complex of hand-dug stone chambers has sheltered locals in times of trouble.

One of the now-less-hidden floral gems of the "Emerald Necklace."