Places alessandralee Wants to Go

Who knew the Devil's domain was a hot spot for tubing?

This stunning Connecticut mansion is actually just a one-room-deep hoax.

This Connecticut chapel is a starkly modern, and surprisingly colorful, architectural rebel.

Home of Philip Johnson, one of the 20th century's most influential architects.

These Benedictine nuns have been making artisanal cheeses since before it was cool.

A castle inspired by medieval architecture is hidden in the woods of Connecticut.

The world's largest public collection of PEZ memorabilia.

The world's largest indoor go-kart racetrack is hiding in Connecticut.

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

With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.

Quirky castle designed by the American actor best known for portraying Sherlock Holmes on stage.

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

A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.

Grapes be damned, this distillery makes wine from apples, blueberries, cranberries, and more.

East meets West in this Japanese-style garden featuring plants native to Maine’s Mount Desert Island.

The debris forms a solemn memorial to those who died in a 1963 accident.

Steam engines and conveyor belts are remnants of a genius system left in the middle of the Maine woods.

Toy museum in a former tavern is the expression of one man's life pursuit of the aesthetic power of cartoon imagery.

The most photographed house in Maine looks good enough to eat.

Wander the sprawling living museum on the site of one of a 16th-century community.

The home of an antique carousel still in operation.

P-town goes wild for the malassadas at this 87-year-old institution.

Utopia and nostalgia mingle at the site of Bronson Alcott's ill-fated agrarian commune.

These beautiful garden buildings are among the oldest surviving greenhouses in the United States.