Places Temporary Hero Wants to Go

The US Navy's only submarine museum is also home to the world's first nuclear submarine.

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

The mysterious headstone of an unidentified bank robber was seen visited, every year, by a woman in black.

These etchings reveal the history of a long-gone quarantine site.

The cave where two British judges hid in exile after sentencing the king to death.

Who knew the Devil's domain was a hot spot for tubing?

This stunning Connecticut mansion is actually just a one-room-deep hoax.

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

The once abandoned ruins of a Victorian beachside amusement park are now back in working order.

This abandoned psychiatric hospital once housed more than 4,000 patients in the middle of a quaint New England town.

The ancient past meets the retro-future at these dinosaur tracks that are protected by a geodesic dome.

A museum designed by and dedicated to P.T. Barnum in the town where he is buried.

The kind of mixed-up place that drives archaeologists crazy.

An Escher-inspired library dedicated to the wonders of the human mind, yet closed to the public.

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

An archival collection of over 2,200 case studies which includes human brain specimens and tumor specimens.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

The intriguing personal collection of a professional demon-chaser.

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.

Alexander Hamilton’s creation caused quite a bit of controversy.

Memorializing an American tragedy of massive proportions.

The fastest transatlantic ocean liner sat abandoned in a Philadelphia shipyard for decades.

This little-known Revolutionary War fort is supposedly haunted by the ghosts of its past.

A macabre farm reserved part of its 222-acres for dead bodies, all in the name of science.