Places rshaffer Wants to Go

This piece of peacetime naval wreckage memorializes the tragic sinking of the USS Maine--an event which sparked the Spanish-American war.

This historic graveyard monument is dedicated to a tragic victim of witch trial hysteria.

Memorial of the Salem witchcraft hysteria in the town of Danvers, where it all began.

Located just behind a quiet residential neighborhood, this is ground zero for the Salem witchcraft hysteria of 1692.

A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.

A building made mostly of cast iron features a 1:45 scale lego model of its self.

Come for the history lesson, stay for the mule-pulled boat rides.

In use from 1742 to 1910, only flat headstones were allowed in this cemetery.

137 graves holding New England's earliest residents.

A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.

A Manhattan courthouse hides a small but scathing memorial to Holocaust injustice.

During the 19th century, you could pay for violence off a prix fixe menu on this Manhattan street.

Hear the tales of New York's most notorious criminals.

First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.

Visit a sweet shop selling one of the first candies ever made and sold in America.

This headstone marks the grave of an 11-year-old boy killed during clashes in the streets over the boycotting of British goods.

This small shop walked so America could run on Dunkin'.

The nation's second-ever First Lady urged the founding fathers to "remember the ladies."

In the power of this waterfall, Alexander Hamilton saw the potential for industry.

A retired firefighter created this contraption so he and his family wouldn't die if accidentally buried alive.

The homestead of American patriot John Adams.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

Experience the hysteria of a 17th century witch hunt through goofy reenactments and wax dummies that should probably be burned at the stake.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.