Places shawtish Wants to Go

Trash escaped from a landfill to fill beaches with all kinds of treasure.

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.

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

A New England ghost town features a trail of boulders etched with intriguing life lessons.

This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.

A museum dedicated to the quirky and colorful world created by Springfield's favorite son.

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

Friction between grains of sand cause a curious "singing" sound.

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

No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

In Gloucester, Massachussets, fishermen celebrate a successful year at sea by charging a lubed pole to capture an Italian flag.

The last surviving 19th-century blast furnace in Connecticut.

A one stop shop for one-of-a-kind antiques, artifacts, and rare oddities sourced from across the globe.

Colorful turkeys gobble and greet delighted visitors.

Dr. Henry Cogswell hoped that his elaborate drinking fountains would dissuade people from drinking alcohol.

After the comedian dissed a Connecticut town on his show, they named a sewage treatment plant after him.

An artificial tree in the University of Connecticut greenhouses holds a collection of orchids, mosses, and other tropical epiphytic plants.

After decades of neglect, a brutalist icon is getting new life as an eco-friendly hotel.

The early American colonists were such ferocious drinkers the law actually required every town to have a tavern.

A museum dedicated to antique toys, collectibles, and nostalgia.