Places Opinicus Wants to Go

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.

Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

A daybeacon pyramid is about all that's left of this island that is said to have sunk due to a pirate's curse.

A monument in a town outside of Boston celebrates the visits of Edgar Allan Poe.

Civil War Fort on an island in the Boston Harbor.

This wooly sculpture supposedly marks the birthplace of a famous nursery rhyme, or not.

The right to a full beard is honored by the grave of a man who was attacked and jailed due to his facial hair.

The Burnside Fountain and its questionable interpretation.

This evocatively named natural crevasse was created by a torrent of water that smashed right through a granite deposit.

Located in Faneuil Hall, the headquarters of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts has stood the test of time.

The oldest working bell set in North America, the bells at Old North Church sat silent for their first four years in Massachusetts.

Beijing's expansive subterranean hiding spot now crumbles away as a tourist destination.

This headstone marks the grave of an 11-year-old boy killed during clashes in the streets over the boycotting of British goods.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.

Hotel designed by indie graphics artists.

A 300-yard long natural tunnel runs through a ridge deep in the Appalachian Mountains.

This peculiar lake of pitch is so thick and viscous that one can walk on its surface.

This Ukraine alleyway has become its own little island of forgotten things.