Places queenangeface Wants to Go

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

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

The final resting place of the famous Rhode Island lighthouse keeper who heroically saved dozens of people from drowning.

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

Dr Barnes' $25 billion private collection of art and arboretum.

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

A unique sculpture park that specializes in the huge and bizarre.

Whimsical artist house in the New Jersey woods.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

This unauthorized stone mermaid was secretly carved out of public stone before being permanently preserved.

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

New York's oldest magic store.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

"Dark Sky Park" is heaven on Earth for astronomers, one of the rare U.S. locations with no artificial light pollution.

One of the world's largest model railroads is a mind-boggling achievement.

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

Books bound in human skin and H. P. Lovecraft's letters are among a few of the treasures this library has to offer.

Last residence of H.P. Lovecraft featured in his story "The Haunter of the Dark."

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

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

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.