Places txcristen Wants to Go

A quiet memorial marks the spot where the victims of the Salem Witch Trials were executed.

A museum dedicated exclusively to the lore and history of ouija boards.

A simple but powerful tribute to the 20 victims of the 1692 witch trials.

The lecture hall where Alexander Graham Bell first demonstrated the long-distance phone call.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

A collection of full-size movie monsters opened to the public.

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."

A wacky, UFO-shaped house in a suburban neighborhood.

The "Seinfeld" diner.

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

Only museum dedicated to women pilots, with personal artifacts from Amelia Earhart and other aviatrixes.

Circus cemetery for all the “showmen under God’s big top.”

The final resting place of Captain William Becknell, the Old West frontiersman who forged the Santa Fe Trail.

Beer lover's can-covered house.

Nature's biggest mammal swims in landlocked Oklahoma.