Places afink Wants to Go

Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.

A free display of artistic lifesize dinosaur sculptures in a backyard garden.

A tiny islet just off Long Island offers a wealth of infectious curiosities.

This private island is still in the family after a 400-year history including a witch hunt, a pirate, and multiple wars.

The strikingly modern structure stands out among the brick buildings speckling the Harvard Business School's campus.

Ice cream stand, snack bar, and time capsule of milk conveyance.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

This upscale streetwear store is hidden behind a fake Snapple machine in the back of a deli.

The last street in Pittsburgh that's paved with wood.

A hyper-luxurious, 12,000- square foot home might be buried beneath Queens, still waiting to protect you from nuclear missiles.

America's greatest forgotten garden and the former stomping grounds of Son of Sam.

The "Skinny House" is made from scrap, salvage, and a neighbor’s kindness.

All that remains of a magnate's dream home is a historic gate and an abandoned public pool.

The site of a tragic massacre that spawned a multimedia franchise.

A millionaire's abandoned swimming pool from the gilded age of one of America's most distinguished families.

An abandoned Gold Coast-era mansion once intended for the exiled ruler of Albania, who never arrived.

The last standing puppet theater on Long Island.

Futuristic apartment blocks are the backdrop for Montreal surfers hangin' ten on the Habitat '67 standing wave.

This ultra-modern home clings to the slope of the Hollywood Hills on a precarious stilt.

Magical-looking cottages that inspired one of the most famous animated films ever.

This glamorous old building is said to have inspired the Tower of Terror.

A castle that was built stone by stone by an eccentric journalist.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.