Places volkscirocco Wants to Go

The first and only American institution dedicated to the enduring value of comedy in the United States.

This lakeside tower is the third attempt at getting a tourist destination to stick on the spot.

The strange, ritualistic-seeming 100+ year old basement of a New Hampshire undergrad society.

This Gothic castle was inspired by Erik the Red's Viking residence at Brattahlid in Greenland.

Plymouth's huge yet little-known memorial to the Pilgrims.

Site of the creepy house used in Lucio Fulci's "The House by the Cemetery."

This gold-winged spire celebrates the first true flight around the world.

One of America's first spies started out as a teacher in this little red one-room schoolhouse.

This historic folk museum celebrates the attention to detail that makes America great.

This home is steeped in history from, George Washington to George Corwin, High Sheriff during the Salem Witch Trials.

This historic hub for labor unions has survived the city's changing landscape.

A comic book store got the road by its shop officially renamed after Superman's girlfriend.

Whimsical cookie-themed plaques mark the birthplace of the Fig Newton.

A resilient tree that has survived for more than 700 years in Guánica Dry Forest.

This museum preserves the heyday of Puerto Rican coffee.

This bleach-white graveyard overlooking the ocean is accessed through a tunnel.

This tiny home was originally a narrow alleyway.

A memorial to the first person killed by a motor vehicle in the Western Hemisphere.

If you dial the number in this abandoned office window "Sam Spade’s" secretary will ask you to leave a message.

This site commemorates the former inn and restaurant where the chocolate chip cookie was first crafted.

Last church of this militaristic WWII style.

Small-town museum dedicated to outer space ... and bicycles.

The infamous Boston Mob ran rackets from an office here in the 1970s.

The two writers famously didn't come to blows over the Oxford comma.