Places Beth Ogando Wants to Go

The skeletal white beams stand as a monument to religious dissent.

No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.

This war hero's old shop remembers the fine line between medicine and quackery during the Revolutionary War.

A former Confederate hospital serves as a remembrance of wounded and dead soldiers.

Exact replica of the ancient monument, but much, much lighter.

This pre-Revolutionary War grist mill ground corn and flour for soldiers in seven American wars.

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

An unassuming island in the middle of the Hudson that hosts campers, including Aleister Crowley.

Brain collection and database that narrows the gap between man and animal.

A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.

The longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere takes over three minutes to ride down.

An astounding collection of medical specimens, including bits of President Lincoln.

A park full of outsider art, created by college students studying outsider art.

Once in a state of dilapidation, this candy-inspired fortress is now being revived.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

An Escher-inspired library dedicated to the wonders of the human mind, yet closed to the public.

The oldest surviving bridge in New York City, which reopened to pedestrians in 2015.

Abandoned Coast Artillery fort now serves as a graffiti canvas and sightseeing vantage point.

A huge resale shop for the cast-offs of the film & television industry.

One Brooklyn man's collection of life-size fiberglass statues has taken over his entire yard.

A heartbreaking monument showing the last morning in the life of Jane Griffith.

This forgotten graveyard in rural New York State once served a pioneering hospital.

The home, museum, and death site of Kodak's influential founder.

The Fox Sisters, America's leading mediums in the mid-19th century, possessed a table they claimed helped them "communicate" with the dead.