Places Charles WV Wants to Go

A sewing machine tycoon built this miniature castle for the people and to beautify a lakeshore.

Why have you never heard of the second most popular tourist site in New York?

Discovered by cows, these upstate New York show caves are presented with a healthy dose of psychedelic folk art.

An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.

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.

The abandoned ruins of America's first private zoo are open for exploration in the Catskills.

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

An abandoned 19th century quarry in the middle of the woods, remade by unnamed wanderers into a massive series of rock thrones.

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

A peaceful international sculpture garden in upstate New York.

One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.

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

The only intersection in America where the buildings on all four corners were built pre-Revolutionary War.

Neon signs that grace the windows of Bergdorf Goodman's and Tiffany & Co. come from this studio in Brooklyn.

The remnants of a luxurious resort that saw its peak in the 1970s and 1980s has been abandoned since 2009, leaving behind the wreckage of both the hotel and a beautiful ice skating rink.

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

This stone gatehouse was once the entrance to a historic mountain resort, and it had a cameo in a cheesy cult horror movie.

The oldest continuously inhabited street in America.

Six peaceful acres in a residential neighborhood dedicated to art and peace.

Adherence to strict Jewish laws is required to enter this ultra-conservative New York village.

100 massive sculptures in the Hudson River Valley.

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

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