Places atozenith Wants to Go

A particularly creepy abandoned hospital that sparks interest for lovers of the supernatural.

Every Saturday morning, this microbakery fills up with freshly baked pastries and sourdough breads.

This Central New York ghost town was once a prosperous railroad community.

These mouldering mansion ruins remember a time when the Catskills were nothing but luxury.

Board a mine car and descend the #190 slope 300 feet underground into the Clark Vein of coal.

This national landmark is also home to a massive treehouse.

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

The world's largest kaleidoscope, designed by a 1960s psychedelic artist.

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

This Ottoman bridge is a rare covered bridge with shops, and considers itself the only bazaar bridge in the world.

A fire station-turned-church-turned-museum dedicated to the work of seminal light artist Dan Flavin.

A 12,000-year-old bog boasting rare plants and fauna.

This curious and colorful space invites visitors to delve into the hidden and often mind-boggling world of caterpillars.

Known as one of the most climbed mountains in the world, this barren peak is permanently bald thanks to an anti-wolf fire.

A few stone foundations and an old graveyard are all that is left of this once thriving settlement in the wilds of Connecticut.

The walkable ruins of an 19th century hotel, destroyed in a horse cremation gone wrong.

The early American colonists were such ferocious drinkers the law actually required every town to have a tavern.

Hidden behind a Target are pillows of cooled lava that formed at the bottom of a deep lake in the Mesozoic Era.

This classic steam-powered train takes tourists on a nostalgic trip around the Connecticut River Valley.

The ancient past meets the retro-future at these dinosaur tracks that are protected by a geodesic dome.

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

British troops and Prohibition couldn’t stop this spot from becoming one of the United States' oldest continuously-run taverns.

This general store is more than a century old and home to various oddities and antiques.

Narrow gorges and deep pools created by long-ago glaciers.