Places afink Wants to Go

New Preston and Kent, Connecticut - where Friday the 13th, Part 2 was filmed.

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

A famed data visualizer's personal sculpture garden is a landscape of modern and megalithic wonders.

Rumored to have tormented a family in the late 1960s, this toy now resides in a quiet little oddities shop.

A dollhouse full of taxidermy rodents, each one handcrafted and given a sordid past.

The oldest living cultivated fruit tree in North America.

This stone gatehouse was once the entrance to a historic mountain resort, and it had a cameo in a cheesy cult horror movie.

The largest known open fault in the United States is basically a giant natural refrigerator.

"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."

The rustic think-space of famed naturalist John Burroughs stands exactly as he left it.

For over 80 years, Mayan ruins stood proudly in a most unlikely location.

"Gnome Chomsky" was once the largest gnome in the world, but is now simply tall for his kind.

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

This old cement mine has been used as everything from a mushroom farm to a recording studio.

One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.

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

A peaceful international sculpture garden in upstate New York.

An abandoned dollhouse factory.

This abandoned cemetery is crumbling into ruin, exposing the artifacts and bodies buried there.

The remains of what was once the world's steepest passenger funicular.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

A ruined mansion hidden in the woods of the Hudson Valley, home of a tragically doomed romance.

Astonishing collection of helmets, scientific instruments, and medical models.

Reclaimed by nature, the ruins of Doodletown, New York are remnants of a town consumed by a state park.