Places 1812foland Wants to Go

Haunted Victorian house that inspired a legendary "Ghostbusters" court ruling.

This forlorn park is the result of a failed investment turned tax dodge.

American artist J. Alden Weir purchased this 60-acre estate for $10 and a painting.

Glacial erratic or man-made dolmen? It probably wasn't druids.

This high-perched pachyderm marks the memory of not one, but two elephants gunned down in small New England towns.

The largest Buddha statue in the Western Hemisphere is just 50 miles north of NYC.

The attic and basement house two museums stuffed with oddities like swallowed spoon handles and a shrunken head.

An abandoned asylum once on the cutting edge of lobotomies may be reborn as a Christian college.

This natural rock "church" might not be a proper chapel but that doesn't mean it's not beautiful.

This isolated community does not want you to visit.

The second largest maple syrup producer in the U.S. runs a high-tech operation.

This once-private estate is now a dreamy, meditative garden that's open to the public.

These conical kilns measure an impressive 30 feet in diameter, and were once used to produce charcoal for a local blast furnace.

Wander the sprawling living museum on the site of one of a 16th-century community.

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

Herman Melville wrote 'Moby Dick' in this landmark 18th-century house surrounded by farmland.

Dedicated in 1895, this is the world's first tribute to the hardworking newspaper delivery boy.

The site of the first "historically true" UFO encounter in the U.S.

The highest point in Connecticut was incorrectly memorialized before surveyors discovered the actual spot.

One of the most scenic falls in Massachusetts has a history of death and grim legend.

Eight whimsical acres of metal art.

Stay at this storybook estate, featuring Sir Henry Hudson Kitson's masterpiece "Gingerbread House."

The first keystone arch railroad bridges constructed in America.

Locals purchased this abandoned quarry in order to make sure it continues to be overgrown.