Places colecallahan Wants to Go

Tucked away on the second floor of a small town library is one of the great private Victorian taxidermy collections looking today very much like it did in 1909.

This sprawling art park is filled with sculptures, nature trails, and art workshops.

The building that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House."

This locally-famous crevasse in New York State is icy all year round.

Wander the sprawling living museum on the site of one of a 16th-century community.

Eight whimsical acres of metal art.

Three acres of mythology-inspired sculptures are visible from the highway.

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

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

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

"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."

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

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

Former laboratory of radical psychiatrist Wilhelm Reich.

Hidden among the trees at the Rangeley Lakes Trails Center are more than 20 gnomes in small wooden houses.

After giving up Michelin glamour for his Amish faith, one chef now makes stellar sausages in a small, off-the-grid shop.

This "common-as-dirt" museum celebrates the glory of normalcy.

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

Inside this old mill is a collection of images that will always remain frozen in time.

An ancient glacial pothole waterfall in the heart of the Green Mountains.

The quaint little Vermont town played a quaint little Connecticut town in Tim Burton's "Beetlejuice."

Taxonomy experiment known for quirky collections.

Antique gaffe kept in the basement of a small Vermont natural history museum.

This boulder with a 200-word legal dedication to God has remained hidden in the woods for over 150 years.