Places samantharicci Wants to Go

A small Richmond island dotted with the remnants of hundreds of years of history.

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

A genuine Tudor manor transported piece by piece from England.

Under a playground is a little-known sealed train tunnel that likely contains the bodies of workers trapped by cave-ins.

A church now sits over the site of one of the worst urban disasters of early 19th-century America.

Within this lovely Richmond cemetery lie the remains of famous Virginians and some of Edgar Allan Poe's most beloved family and friends.

A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.

Retirement home where the actress who played the Wicked Witch of the West passed away.

The oldest headstone in Connecticut.

The creek where a shark wreaked terror upon New Jersey, and served as the inspiration for "Jaws."

The highest point in Connecticut was incorrectly memorialized before surveyors discovered the actual spot.

Eight whimsical acres of metal art.

You can get anything you want at the former site of the restaurant immortalized by Arlo Guthrie.

Stay at this storybook estate, featuring Sir Henry Hudson Kitson's masterpiece "Gingerbread House."

An abandoned Gold Coast-era mansion once intended for the exiled ruler of Albania, who never arrived.

The site of the Andover Witch Hunts, which ended with more witch accusations and arrests than Salem.

The first bridge observation tower in the U.S. offers one of the best views of Maine.

This 19th century granite fortification is one of the most well preserved forts in New England.

An unsolved murder victim's grave which may or may not contain her body.

Stone monument honoring a town founder has a witch-boot shaped stain and a curse to go with it.

The house and graveyard used in the Stephen King spine-chiller.

Walk the same tracks that once ferried Gilded Age aristocrats to their vacation destinations.

One of the few institutions in the United States devoted to the art of decorative bird carving.

East meets West in this Japanese-style garden featuring plants native to Maine’s Mount Desert Island.