Places 1812foland Wants to Go

All that remains of the once-booming chain is a single orange-roofed restaurant.

This throwback amusement park is home to rides and unique storybook figures from the past.

This lovely little pond is named after the hundreds of soldiers' corpses that were rolled into the waters during the French-Indian War.

This picturesque cottage was the site of Ulysses S. Grant’s final and perhaps most important campaign.

Fossilized sea bottom and lime quarry.

The first evidence of some of the Earth's earliest life was found in this fossilized undersea grotto.

Two mermen, eternally spitting into each other's mouths.

A beautiful multicolored mound formed by the mineral deposits of the Orenda Spring.

The birthplace of the alleged inventor of baseball.

Thousands of bottles that have held everything from poison to perfume make up the collection of this small museum.

This sprawling taxidermy collection celebrates the art and history of sport hunting.

An upstate New York garage advertises its services by literally putting the automobile above all else.

Not even a series of devastating fires could keep this odd castle in upstate New York from bouncing back.

A sewing machine tycoon built this miniature castle for the people and to beautify a lakeshore.

A gigantic 10-foot tall stone man.

This small Catskills village has six independent bookstores and more bookshops than restaurants.

The former home of a disgraced local priest now hosts a mysterious secret supper club.

The world's largest kaleidoscope, designed by a 1960s psychedelic artist.

An abandoned 19th century quarry in the middle of the woods, remade by unnamed wanderers into a massive series of rock thrones.

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

A peaceful international sculpture garden in upstate New York.

A journey to a hand-crafted island involves a trip across this lattice bridge.

Hundreds of numbered stakes hidden in the woods mark the graves of the lost souls of a nearby asylum.

This giant rock arrived at this quiet park thousands of years ago on the back of a massive glacier.