Places samfsm Wants to Go

A desiccated merman and a walrus penis bone are among the oddities in this eclectic collection of shipwreck treasures.

One of America's oldest private membership libraries was long one of New Haven's best kept secrets.

Amazing views of Long Island Sound can be seen from this mountaintop tower.

The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin was neighbors with Mark Twain while living in this Connecticut home.

New London, Connecticut still holds a grudge against its hometown son who turned traitor and burned the city.

British troops and Prohibition couldn’t stop this spot from becoming one of the United States' oldest continuously-run taverns.

A seasonal movie monster museum featuring wax creations by a relative of one of the original Universal Studios monsters.

With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.

A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.

A collection of haunted artifacts chronicles the career of the world’s most famous paranormal investigators. Museum is temporarily closed with plans to re-open.

The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.

One of the greatest heroes of the Titanic tragedy came from humble beginnings to this beautiful home.

Orcas on display and in the water.

In this subterranean brick arcade, a small shop continues the ancient practice of bookbinding.

The historic bar where local ship captains, traders, and gold miners would come together to do business a century ago.

Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

A Victorian-style home known as the “Castle on the Hill.”

Get your cosplay on at Milwaukie’s only Medieval fantasy-themed mead hall.