Places Darrell Powers Wants to Go

The ruins of a Massachusetts prison farm can still be found crumbling the woods of a state park.

The walkable ruins of an 19th century hotel, destroyed in a horse cremation gone wrong.

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

A real-life hidden Easter Egg in New Hampshire's capital city

The oldest covered railroad bridge still standing in the United States.

The 92-foot-tall structure is based on the aircraft that carried the first Americans into space.

Maybe the only missile installed in a public park, this Cold War leftover was one of the first to carry a nuclear warhead.

This historic mini-suspension bridge was swept away once but is now here to stay.

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

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

The remains of what was once the world's steepest passenger funicular.

"Gnome Chomsky" was once the largest gnome in the world, but is now simply tall for his kind.

A 19th century hat factory still stands as a crumbling ruin in upstate New York.

What was once a trend-setting, phrase-coining icon of architectural splendor is now a rotting, forgotten hulk.

A ruined mansion hidden in the woods of the Hudson Valley, home of a tragically doomed romance.

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

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

An underground blaze turned this village into a ghost town.

Abandoned blast furnaces are an enduring reminder of Scranton's once booming iron business.

The Paul Bunyan of the steel industry.

This covered bridge was used by both Union and Confederate troops during the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863.

Considered by many to be a local landmark and treasure.