Places wednesday Wants to Go

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

With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.

A seasonal movie monster museum featuring wax creations by a relative of one of the original Universal Studios monsters.

The ancient past meets the retro-future at these dinosaur tracks that are protected by a geodesic dome.

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

A museum designed by and dedicated to P.T. Barnum in the town where he is buried.

Underground tunnels remain beneath this abandoned mental asylum.

137 graves holding New England's earliest residents.

The kind of mixed-up place that drives archaeologists crazy.

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

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

Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.

The intriguing personal collection of a professional demon-chaser.

A collection of haunted artifacts chronicles the career of the world’s most famous paranormal investigators. Museum is temporarily closed with plans to re-open.

A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.

All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."

Everyone remembers Laurie Strode from Halloween, but this is the house where most of the blood was shed.

The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg’s famous shark movie.

The site of a tragic massacre that spawned a multimedia franchise.

Stroll the grounds built by murder, suicide, and dirty oil money at one of Hollywood's most filmed mansions.

This stunning gothic ruin was a casualty of the Indiana steel industry crash.

A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.

Nancy Thompson's Home from "A Nightmare on Elm Street."

This opulent hotel has been visited by Spider-Man, Charlie's Angels, and the Ghostbusters.