Places Opinicus Wants to Go

Antique gaffe kept in the basement of a small Vermont natural history museum.

The building that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House."

This charming woodland trail is peppered with poetry.

Two distinctive homes on a New England village green look like a couple of frosted wedding cakes.

This magnificent Japanese garden provides a moment of Zen in rural Vermont.

A cable-suspension footbridge that hangs high above the Mill River.

Who is this marble man, perpetually creeping up the steps of his own mausoleum?

A 60-foot-tall tower provides unparalleled views of the southern Green Mountains.

An artist sees trees as a medium for sculpture.

Dozens of playful sculptures blanket these 200 rolling acres of farmland in an ode to art and landscape.

Home to fossils and other specimens from the Western Interior Seaway.

Inside this community-run museum, visitors are treated to the history of toys and games.

The remains of a deserted 1800s farming community can be found in Little River State Park.

Inside this old mill is a collection of images that will always remain frozen in time.

This path is named for a mythical half-boar, half-deer creature that once roamed the Green Mountains.

Leave a button on the jacket of this iconic Seattle clown.

A commemorative mural in this tiny Ballard park honors the neighborhood's rich Scandinavian ties, particularly with Seattle's Norwegian sister city Bergen.

An eclectic restaurant serving from and to the nearby Chittenden Locks.

Inside this curiosity shop, visitors can peruse the clown collection or purchase a molar from the mouth of Bigfoot.

A collection of odd-shaped and quirky sounding instruments handmade by a midcentury inventor-composer.

This grand old 80-foot sequoia towers above the buildings in the city’s retail center.

This graveyard contains markers and monuments dedicated to some of the darkest chapters in Washington's history.

An old-timey peepshow allows visitors to gawk at some of the world's most freakishly large footwear.

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.