Places ykshaun Wants to Go

Largest institutional collection of tomb figures from Western Mexico in the United States.

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

The only remaining historic maritime signal station in the United States.

Every plane, auto, and bicycle in this collection is kept in working order and are regularly demonstrated to the public.

For nearly 200 years the same family has harvested ice from a small pond in eastern Maine.

The whole of Maine's history with the salty little fish is packed into this tiny coastal museum.

Accessible only by boat, this centuries-old island fort never saw troops or combat.

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

After giving up Michelin glamour for his Amish faith, one chef now makes stellar sausages in a small, off-the-grid shop.

Explore the dark underground corridors of this graffiti-covered former military fortification.

The eccentric mansion of one of the most popular horror authors of modern times.

Inside this striking glass building, visitors can see thousands of dinosaur fossils in the positions that nature deposited them more than 150 million years ago.

Drink and learn at this striking ode to coffee culture and history.

Austria’s oldest brewery makes beer with flaming-hot granite.

This quirky roadside attraction dives into the many theories surrounding North America's most infamous hairy cryptid.

The Kalamazoo factory has 100 years of instrument-making, and one big wartime secret.

Performers, intricate sets, and a real speakeasy tell the story of the 18th Amendment.

Sacked by Vikings, blessed by William the Conqueror, dealt a fatal blow during the French Revolution—these ruins have seen it all.

The famous winding walk at Chartres is surrounded in mystery and myth.

One woman's decades-long obsession with the "La Fée Verte."

This pair of running lions engraved on animal bone is one of the earliest artistic depictions of big cats.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.