Places Opinicus Wants to Go

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

This decrepit abandoned building is made all the more eerie by its dark history.

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.

"Gnome Chomsky" was once the largest gnome in the world, but is now simply tall for his kind.

The oldest continuously inhabited street in America.

Mass Grave of 48 colonists killed in a raid by Native Americans and the French in 1704.

The only intersection in America where the buildings on all four corners were built pre-Revolutionary War.

This giant Massachusetts sycamore is said to hold the dubious distinction of being the "widest tree East of the Mississippi!"

This whimsically unique butterfly farm focuses solely on creating habitats for the gentle insects.

This roadside attraction attracts kids with dinosaurs before blindsiding them with geology.

A famed data visualizer's personal sculpture garden is a landscape of modern and megalithic wonders.

The first evidence of some of the Earth's earliest life was found in this fossilized undersea grotto.

This unusual building straddles two countries.

This lovely hilltop tower was specifically built to withstand 100 MPH winds.

This natural rock "church" might not be a proper chapel but that doesn't mean it's not beautiful.

A seasonal movie monster museum featuring wax creations by a relative of one of the original Universal Studios monsters.

What was once a trend-setting, phrase-coining icon of architectural splendor is now a rotting, forgotten hulk.

These etchings reveal the history of a long-gone quarantine site.

One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.

Come for the gun-toting hillbilly madman, stay for the ice-cream loving basketball bears.

An old abandoned mining town in The Adirondacks where Theodore Roosevelt first learned of the shooting of President William McKinley.

This "common-as-dirt" museum celebrates the glory of normalcy.