Places waywardwillard Wants to Go

This North Carolina museum is keeping the pinball craze alive, with a little Space Invaders on the side.

This bridge is haunted by the ghost of a distraught mother.

The opulent home that inspired Tintin's Marlinspike Hall and the adventures within.

Hellam Township is reputed to feature seven remote gates, which when passed through in the right order, open an entrance to hell.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

Mirrored floors and arched shelves create the illusion of an infinite tunnel of books.

The latest in a series of long glass bridges suspended at terrifying heights.

270 million year-old forest of stone.

This abandoned fishing settlement may well be the greenest village in the world.

Not one, not two, but three natural bridges remain in this captivating spot post-sinkhole.

A sacred mountaintop temple offers a fine cup of tea to visitors who can survive the journey.

The world's longest outdoor escalator takes visitors to the top of China's largest dam and is also shaped like a dragon.

On Hurricane Island, a former ghost town has been transformed into a forward-thinking research center.

This Art Deco theater is the last remaining opera house in the “little Broadway of the North.”

A memorial to an ill-fated Holy Land mission once described by Mark Twain as “a complete fiasco.”

The remains of a large iron mill that once stood in the remote woods of northern Maine.

A couple's 60-year love of collecting is on display at this unique stove repair shop in Maine.

This waterfront museum in Maine is dedicated to the history of the smoked-herring trade.

Built for television, this statue now serves as an unlikely memorial to a fireman who died on 9/11.

Its unique collection details the history of the state's svelte railroads.

This uninhabited island in Maine is home to various works of art left by visitors over the years.

Plaque remembering the 18th century forced relocation of Acadians.

Abraham Lincoln's vice president took his last breath here on July 4, 1891.

The second-oldest garden cemetery in the U.S. was also a college brainstorm spot of Stephen King.