Places ToasterFaerie Wants to Go

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

The oldest place in Hartford is a cemetery with thousands of bodies stacked beneath the grass.

The hillside where Edvard Munch experienced the panic attack that inspired “The Scream” offers one of the most striking evening views in Oslo.

This American Sycamore was grown from seeds that accompanied the Apollo 14 mission in 1971.

An abandoned gun-funded 19th century utopia.

A mountain pass used by Prohibition-era bootleggers to facilitate traffic into and out of Canada from Vermont.

Industrial ruin decimated this tiny New England company town in a fashion no one saw coming… and even fewer remember today.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

The Mysterious Witch Bonney, a haunted statue in an old industrial city.

One New Hampshire alleyway has become home to a public gallery of feline art.

A rare 16-bedroom Qing Dynasty house re-erected on the campus of the Peabody Essex Museum. 

"Mock all and sundry things, but leave the saints alone."

Explore the odd assortment of items that have washed up on the beaches of Plum Island.

Quirky castle designed by the American actor best known for portraying Sherlock Holmes on stage.

A home decorated by its owner with eye-catching and captivating assemblages of found objects

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

The Vermont grave of a 4,000-year-old mummy prince.

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

Herman Melville wrote 'Moby Dick' in this landmark 18th-century house surrounded by farmland.

Sacks of potatoes, made of cast stone, mark where the iconic potato sheds once stood along the river.

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.

A computer bug so primitive it was an actual insect.

The remains of Martha, the last known passenger pigeon, serve as a tool to educate about conservation.