Places banford71 Wants to Go

A remnant of the 19th-century dream to discourage people from drinking booze by offering them water.

Now home to hardy plants, these sand and gravel dunes once held back a massive prehistoric lake.

The home of a famed utopian science fiction author has been preserved long after his predicted future in the year 2000.

This magnificent Japanese garden provides a moment of Zen in rural Vermont.

The world’s largest underground marble quarry is hiding in Vermont.

This large cemetery is known as the museum of granite sculptures.

Two distinctive homes on a New England village green look like a couple of frosted wedding cakes.

An ancient glacial pothole waterfall in the heart of the Green Mountains.

A massive sustainable farm designed by the mastermind behind Central Park.

Stand at the center of this lakefront sundial, and you'll become part of the timepiece.

Scary metal statues adorn some of the signature buildings of Burlington, Vermont.

The highest peak in the state of Vermont has some interesting features.

The "original web site," this farm in Northern Vermont encourages orb-weaver spiders to build their daily webs, and then sells the preserved masterpieces.

A beautiful, creepy 19th-century castle stands incongruously in rural Vermont.

This cavernous abandoned marble mine is popular with ice skaters in the winter.

This 38-drawer structure claims the superlative title, but it isn't the world's only giant filing cabinet.

Beautiful hillside Vermont cemetery with amazing funerary art.

One car at a time please.

Tour the world's largest deep-hole dimension granite quarry, where you can view the plant where gravestones are made and roll a ball down the outdoor granite bowling alley.

A treasure trove of rare and fine fabrics from around the world.

This giant Massachusetts sycamore is said to hold the dubious distinction of being the "widest tree East of the Mississippi!"

Sites connected to a woman born on a ship and spared by a pirate.

One of the largest public collection of historic armored and military vehicles in North America.

America's "second most important bell" is a contentious spoil of the Civil War.