Places samfsm Wants to Go

Rare recess caves fill this unbelievably beautiful Ohio park.

The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.

A collection of witchcraft artifacts and occult paraphernalia started by the leader of the Long Island Coven.

An old spiral fire escape dangles above a public courtyard in Midtown Oklahoma City.

This historic folk art garden contains a nightmare tower that claims to be the world's largest concrete totem pole.

The collection is housed in an exquisite mansion that makes you feel like you've been transported to an Italian villa.

A peculiar forest that was handcrafted for government experiments.

Collection of skeletal systems from the "world's leading supplier of osteological specimens."

The world's only museum devoted solely to the art and collection of action figures.

A work of art that pays homage to a Victorian timepiece in Providence.

An ode to Japanese artist Hokusai, with a bit of a comical twist.

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

The final resting place of the famous Rhode Island lighthouse keeper who heroically saved dozens of people from drowning.

This storybook New England home is actually a decommissioned lighthouse.

The only surviving fragment of the lost Narragansett Pier Casino.

A giant green dragon crawls down from the roof of the Providence Children's Museum.

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

An architectural statement of artistic intent smack in the middle of Providence, Rhode Island's Colonial uniformity.

A virtually untouched "home on the hill" for the flora and fauna of Rhode Island.

Books bound in human skin and H. P. Lovecraft's letters are among a few of the treasures this library has to offer.

Final resting place of one of the classic authors of horror literature.

Last residence of H.P. Lovecraft featured in his story "The Haunter of the Dark."

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

A mountain pass used by Prohibition-era bootleggers to facilitate traffic into and out of Canada from Vermont.