Places Damian Wants to Go

An historic lighthouse accessible via a half-mile walk through a nature preserve and freshwater tidal wetlands.

A living antique aviation museum in the historic town of Red Hook, New York.

For over 80 years, Mayan ruins stood proudly in a most unlikely location.

A nearly 100-year-old dining car in upstate New York embodies the golden age of roadside dining.

A journey to a hand-crafted island involves a trip across this lattice bridge.

The home of one of America's most wealthy industrialists is now a historic site that remembers a more decadent time in the country's history.

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

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

The largest Buddha statue in the Western Hemisphere is just 50 miles north of NYC.

This whimsically unique butterfly farm focuses solely on creating habitats for the gentle insects.

Astonishing collection of helmets, scientific instruments, and medical models.

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

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

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

Haunted Victorian house that inspired a legendary "Ghostbusters" court ruling.

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

Nondescript elevator doors open to reveal a stunning, surreal world.

Would you spend the night in Japan's deepest train station?

America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.

Catch a ride through the Pennsylvania countryside on this historic narrow-gauge railroad.

A beautiful, historic location open to the public.

A disconnected rotary phone for "calling" lost loved ones offered a unique way of dealing with grief in disaster-stricken Japan.

This magnificent Japanese garden provides a moment of Zen in rural Vermont.

This spectacular bridge supported by two gigantic hands looks like something out of a fantasy universe.