Places sfinn70 Wants to Go

In this small Phoenix taxidermy emporium, you can find everything from a squid in a jar to a freeze-dried toad.

Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

The ruins of a Massachusetts prison farm can still be found crumbling the woods of a state park.

This former Masonic hall has been turned into an art project that uses even more metaphysical iconography.

Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

A plaque memorializes the Boston location of one of the largest nightclub fires in history.

Run by a eugenics advocate, this aging institution conducted secret radiation experiments sponsored by Quaker Oats.

The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.

An elaborate, hidden model train in the Needham Town Forest.

Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.

The vaguely man-shaped root that ate the body of the founder of Rhode Island.

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

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

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

A simple Colonial home with a past haunted by death and madness.

This giant Boston statue of Mary is standing on a globe to show her power over the universe.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

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

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

All of Chicago's wood-paved streets are long gone but two alleys remain.

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.