Places bjjsquirrel Wants to Go

A series of idealized caves carved to entertain guests.

The abandoned buildings of a hospital that saw most of its activity during the World Wars.

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

The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin was neighbors with Mark Twain while living in this Connecticut home.

The final resting place of one member of the Amistad slave revolt who never made it back home.

The remnants of a 19th-century ironmaking complex hidden in the woods of Connecticut.

Panoramic views of the city of New Haven and the Long Island Sound, with a side of history.

Hundreds of numbered stakes hidden in the woods mark the graves of the lost souls of a nearby asylum.

The graves of a Connecticut family thought to have been plagued by a vampire.

These World War I shooting range tunnels are now haunted halls of underground graffiti accessed through the roots of a tree.

A historic Black graveyard hidden in the parking lot of one of America's largest malls.

Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.

This once-grand marvel of engineering is now 41 miles of scenic hiking trail.

100 massive sculptures in the Hudson River Valley.

The home of a famed utopian science fiction author has been preserved long after his predicted future in the year 2000.

Reclaimed by nature, the ruins of Doodletown, New York are remnants of a town consumed by a state park.

A plaque on a rock dedicated to a famous, forgotten author, and put in an impossible place.

The abandoned grounds and derelict greenhouses of this once-magnificent Edwardian estate are now a nature preserve open for exploration.

One of the most scenic falls in Massachusetts has a history of death and grim legend.

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

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

The real-life site of Ichabod Crane's infamous gourd attack.

This mouldering abandoned mental hospital was once a center for progressive healing.

The first pet cemetery in the United States.