Places A Bear Wants to Go

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

One of the world's largest model railroads is a mind-boggling achievement.

Burial site more than 300 years old.

Divinely-inspired village houses 6,000 dolls, plus strange and lovely outsider art.

A historic grist mill and active sluice on the Black River.

On the Hudson resides one of the largest clocks in the world.

Lavish royal estate punctuated with heated greenhouses.

World War II bunker still standing on the New Jersey beach.

Two insane asylum bodies embalmed by an amateur.

Largest display of Wesleyana anywhere in the world.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

A whimsical monument deep in this park commemorates the groups that helped build it.

A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.

100 massive sculptures in the Hudson River Valley.

Dr Barnes' $25 billion private collection of art and arboretum.

Brussels' favorite peeing boy has a sister.

A museum dedicated to the history & joys of the trail & your best chance to see hikers throwing up ice cream.

Memorializing an American tragedy of massive proportions.

Adherence to strict Jewish laws is required to enter this ultra-conservative New York village.

A historic coal mine that doubles as a museum and tourist attraction.

One man's lifelong obsession with death.

Commercial airplanes land mere feet over the heads of sunbathing beachgoers on this tiny island.

A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.

An art instillation for the sake of "raising vibrations."