Places patricklongmire Wants to Go

"Not too many people can say they've had a nuclear bomb dropped on them, not too many would want to." — Walter Gregg.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

The first newspaper printed by an expeditionary force was published in this colonial mansion.

A single light illuminates one man's overshadowed contributions to street lamp history.

An unusual library of dead things at the Rhode Island School of Design.

An unexpected Easter egg lurks in the background of a cherub wall relief at the Breakers mansion.

The oldest still-operating tavern in the United States was once owned by a pirate.

An architecturally unique lighthouse that had to be lifted up and moved to avoid falling in the sea.

Oldest synagogue in the United States.

You can spend the night as an honorary lighthouse keeper in this quaint, historic beacon.

Off a hiking trail in Rhode Island stands a picturesque memorial to a long-forgotten war.

A 60-room castle constructed by a horse-racing heir.

This historic Rhode Island mini-cemetery features a number of headstones run through with mysterious holes.

An ancient cemetery with some historic bodies underfoot.

The vaguely man-shaped root that ate the body of the founder of Rhode Island.

As state highpoints go, this spot is one of the lowest, but for years it was also the hardest to climb.

This lighthouse was witness to the end of WWII hostilities and now collects creepy cairns.

To avoid the demolition costs this abandoned drawbridge was simply left in the up position.

Mysterious stone tower featured in many alternative histories of the New World.

This Rhode Island mansion was a stand-in for the exteriors of Collinwood in the original "Dark Shadows" series.

The final resting place of New England's last "vampire."

Unicorns, elephants, and bears, oh my!

The exact whereabouts of this surreal cabinet of curiosities are rarely the same place twice.

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."