Places volkscirocco Wants to Go

This historic Massachusetts tavern played a critical role in the start of the American Revolution.

A miniature train theme park, free to the public, laying at the base of the Santa Monica Mountains.

Trinkets and toys lovingly handmade by maximum security prisoners.

Toy museum in a former tavern is the expression of one man's life pursuit of the aesthetic power of cartoon imagery.

The house and graveyard used in the Stephen King spine-chiller.

This stone in Lexington honors a formerly enslaved man who fought during the American Revolution.

The man who voiced Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, and more has a headstone reading, "That's all, folks!"

The classic Christmas carol was written at this Massachusetts tavern in 1850.

Dedicated to "the father of U.S. life insurance."

In 1909, the steepest and most difficult piece of track on the Canadian Pacific Railway was replaced with a series of spiralling tunnels cut into the mountains.

A historic bridge no one is allowed to cross.

Somewhere between an art studio and a print shop, this artists storefront is a house of worship devoted to type.

A cannon designed to fire an atomic warhead.

This abandoned radar station from the Cold War era now only broadcasts a seriously ominous air of isolation.

Thousands of mounted insects, and some live ones, hide within an otherwise ordinary shopping mall.

Restaurant in a 1741 farmhouse that touts the story of its haunting on its menus.

Seller of surplus nuclear research materials.

"Try not to knock anything over!"

Activists are fighting to preserve these unfinished highway ramps as a tribute to the citizen revolt that halted their construction decades ago.

Birthplace of America's first documented serial killer.

Run by a eugenics advocate, this aging institution conducted secret radiation experiments sponsored by Quaker Oats.

An invitation-only museum of items natural and bizarre, arcane and exotic.

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

Where the leftovers of love affairs can live on forever.