Places Pengwn Wants to Go

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

An iconic steel and chrome diner from the 1940s left empty for nearly 20 years is in danger of being demolished.

This Connecticut chapel is a starkly modern, and surprisingly colorful, architectural rebel.

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

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

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.

A museum dedicated to the quirky and colorful world created by Springfield's favorite son.

Home to the Titanic Historical Society's collection.

This miniature feudal castle was built on a whim to honor a US Navy pioneer.

The self-proclaimed world's smallest museum, located next to a Massachusetts sandwich chain.

For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

A little Lego easter egg is hidden underwater in the Boston Tea Party tableau at Miniland.

The oldest living cultivated fruit tree in North America.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

This small museum is an eccentric shrine to boyhood in the 1960s.

Once the future of underwater combat, this old sub is now open for visitors to muck around in.

True to its name, this bouncy walkway may be the world’s smallest suspension bridge.

A gardener's enduring labor of love is spread throughout a small Vermont town.

This sandstone gorge in New York State's Adirondack Mountains is home to waterfalls, flumes, and more.

The monumental steeple on Amherst College's campus has no church attached to it.

This giant monument of the RCA mascot is a beloved fixture in Albany, New York.

A monument to the Mohawk people stands along an old Native American trade route.