Places wdarling Wants to Go

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

Astonishing collection of helmets, scientific instruments, and medical models.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

A very big rock just plopped down in the New England woods.

Home of Philip Johnson, one of the 20th century's most influential architects.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

An archival collection of over 2,200 case studies which includes human brain specimens and tumor specimens.

A vast collection of rare books, manuscripts & extraordinary objects illustrating the history of medicine.

Resonating tubes make music from highway overpass.

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

250-year-old farm now features sculptures, a petting zoo and a hippy-bazaar.

A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.

Friction between grains of sand cause a curious "singing" sound.

Memorial of the Salem witchcraft hysteria in the town of Danvers, where it all began.

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

Civil War Fort on an island in the Boston Harbor.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

The sprawling, eccentric estate of Ames and Ames, a brilliant botanist, and a genius inventor and artist.

The ghost town that was one of New Hampshire's first settlements now exists as a park detailing its history.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.