Places richardeduggan Wants to Go

A 132-year-old telescope continues to keep watch over the night skies above Providence.

The place where Samuel "Slater the Traitor" brought the Industrial Revolution to America.

Once the largest attraction in Rhode Island, this former amusement park is now a gorgeous coastal state park.

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

This beach-side arcade is believed to be the oldest penny arcade in America.

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

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

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

One of the oldest carousels in the United States is still running in the coastal village of Watch Hill.

How did the right arm of a 13th-century English bishop wind up in a Connecticut church?

Tucked away in downtown Westerly is America's first shark history museum.

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

The only surviving fragment of the lost Narragansett Pier Casino.

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

Tucked away in the forest, these giant wooden trolls delight visitors in Charlestown, Rhode Island.

A frozen relic of Seattle's hydroelectric boom is now a teaching facility for future engineers.

The largest known medieval map of the world.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.