Places Ratbas Wants to Go

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

Driftwood dinosaurs lurk within trees covered in a rainbow array of avian abodes.

Small rustic cabin nested in the mountains of Killington, Vermont.

An artist sees trees as a medium for sculpture.

This cavernous abandoned marble mine is popular with ice skaters in the winter.

A tomb with a window to ensure the interred wasn't buried alive.

This unusual building straddles two countries.

This folk art dinosaur was almost pushed to extinction due to lack of a building permit.

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

This 38-drawer structure claims the superlative title, but it isn't the world's only giant filing cabinet.

New England's tallest light house stands on an island with a history of cannibalism and death.

The highest point in Maine is a grand gift to the state citizens that also happens to be one end of the Appalachian Trail.

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

This Maine bridge may be the last wire-supported bridge of its type in the world.

A steampunk wonderland that preserves America's history of industrial innovation.

The ruins of a Massachusetts prison farm can still be found crumbling the woods of a state park.

Funded entirely by volunteers and donors this military memorial features a tank with a comedy line on its barrel.

This historic cemetery is filled with markers that look more like candy than was likely intended.

A tribute to the couples who brave long periods of separation during wartime.

A monument in a town outside of Boston celebrates the visits of Edgar Allan Poe.

Annual celebration commemorating the 1965 sighting of strange lights in the town.

A strange, heartwarming, decades-old declaration of love on a New Hampshire roadside.

Beautiful hillside Vermont cemetery with amazing funerary art.