Places RCooper Wants to Go

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

These mysterious petroglyphs in Vermont reflect a troubled history in the treatment of Native American culture.

Celebrating an art form with a collection of puppets from all over the world.

Since 1947, this living history museum has been providing an immersive look at life in Plymouth Colony.

This rare symbol of Eastern philosophy in the West has been created over years of painstaking construction by the local community.

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

A coastal rock outcrop with mysterious inscriptions variously attributed to Native Americans, Portuguese, Phoenicians, Norse, and more.

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

This 3,500 pound obelisk was constructed with more than 1,000 reclaimed guns.

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

Row, row, row your pumpkin quickly down the stream.

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

A dollhouse full of taxidermy rodents, each one handcrafted and given a sordid past.

Rumored to have tormented a family in the late 1960s, this toy now resides in a quiet little oddities shop.

One man’s hobby is another man’s world of metal wonders.

A museum dedicated exclusively to the lore and history of ouija boards.

Overgrown ruins of a turn of the century island fort that sees very few visitors.

Like stepping into a spooky fairy-tale, this shop carries the dark ideas of artists and other makers.

From economic backbone of a community to deadly diving hole, these former stone quarries are now a park for rock climbers and graffiti artists.

A more than 260-year-old crypt built on Boston's oldest English burial ground.

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

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

This upscale streetwear store is hidden behind a fake Snapple machine in the back of a deli.