Places bakermelissa33 Wants to Go

Eclectic architecture in the woods of New York.

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

A soon-to-be-forgotten roadside spectacle loaded with local lore.

Take a ride inside a former coal mine in Ashland, Pennsylvania.

An underground blaze turned this village into a ghost town.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

A train station that was abandoned by the coal industry and converted into a cocktail bar. Now it’s home to the local visitor bureau.

A near tragic event on this bridge helped inspire the classic film "It's a Wonderful Life."

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.

Visitors to Salt Springs State Park are encouraged to literally put their two cents in Penny Rock.

An allegedly haunted testament to a local businessman's desire for status, posterity, and charity.

Launch vegetables using oversized slingshots at this Fingerlakes winery's roadside attraction.

These hooded graves are the only of their kind in the United States.

The final resting place for the famed creator and narrator of "The Twilight Zone."

An abandoned asylum where patients have been forgotten but their possessions remain.

The forest has reclaimed nearly everything—streets included—from this failed Pennsylvania "City of Heaven" that was once deeded directly to God.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

Soldiers’ scrawls turned into history’s signatures.

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

Collection of trolley cars in the woods represent one man's attempt to preserve transportation history.

This is the spot where the bloodiest battle in the American Civil War may have started.

Steepest flood safety railway in the entire world.

The absurd creation is a compulsory destination for selfies in Buffalo.

This dramatic rail curve was once the target of a failed Nazi attack.