Places Tansy Wants to Go

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

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

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

Abandoned Coast Artillery fort now serves as a graffiti canvas and sightseeing vantage point.

The exact whereabouts of this surreal cabinet of curiosities are rarely the same place twice.

A human attendant once directed car traffic from this structure before automated stoplights.

A free display of artistic lifesize dinosaur sculptures in a backyard garden.

Thousands of American timepieces on display in the former clock-making capital of the country.

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

This petite park lets visitors see and touch examples of fossilized dinosaur tracks.

Inside a state forest, the forgotten remains of a Cold War defensive installation.

Public outcry led to this bridge's unique character which celebrates a giant frog battle and also sewing.

A parade of antique steeds offers a quirky ride through history.

Ruins of a historic medical facility sits eerily by the water.

The ruins of an abandoned 18th-century town that is slowly being reclaimed by the forest.

A former copper mine which became a truly unsuccessful prison.

A famed data visualizer's personal sculpture garden is a landscape of modern and megalithic wonders.

137 graves holding New England's earliest residents.

This peaceful gem in upstate New York was chosen as the future home of the 14th Dalai Lama's Library and Museum.