Places patrickboe Wants to Go

Pennsylvania's own Roswell-style UFO mystery.

The universally beloved children's television figure is interred on a high hilltop in one of western Pennsylvania's oldest cemeteries.

A larger-than-life statue of America's favorite sundae marks the place it was invented.

Behold the rickety glory of one of the oldest roller coasters still standing.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.

A field of nothing but boulders which resembles a giant's gravel driveway.

Board a mine car and descend the #190 slope 300 feet underground into the Clark Vein of coal.

One of the U.S. Forest Service's only mansions is outfitted with a dinner table for floating food.

This opera house along the banks of the Connecticut River has two Tony Awards to its credit but it’s never staged a single opera.

These Benedictine nuns have been making artisanal cheeses since before it was cool.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

An extra-wide chair built to accommodate the former president's big behind.

New Preston and Kent, Connecticut - where Friday the 13th, Part 2 was filmed.

The world's largest indoor go-kart racetrack is hiding in Connecticut.

The kind of mixed-up place that drives archaeologists crazy.

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

Memorial to one of the most fatal fires in both circus and U.S. history.

A former copper mine which became a truly unsuccessful prison.

The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin was neighbors with Mark Twain while living in this Connecticut home.

The early American colonists were such ferocious drinkers the law actually required every town to have a tavern.

This Canadian island is a veritable garden of decay with countless abandoned structures dotting the landscape.

The grave of Mary Nasson is shrouded by witchy legends.

Giant instrument-shaped home in Fayetteville, Georgia.