Places agray5687 Wants to Go

East meets West in this Japanese-style garden featuring plants native to Maine’s Mount Desert Island.

Since 1956, this quintessentially New England seafood shack has been boiling its lobsters in seawater over wood fires.

Tucked away in the forest, these giant wooden trolls delight visitors in Charlestown, Rhode Island.

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."

Stay at this storybook estate, featuring Sir Henry Hudson Kitson's masterpiece "Gingerbread House."

This Connecticut ferry has been operating in some form since 1655.

The farmhouse where a reclusive sculptor and printmaker created thousands of works.

Visit the grave of America's most prominent paranormal investigators and self-proclaimed demonologists.

The best revenge is a five-tiered layer cake of a dwelling.

Near-constant high winds deform the trees on Spruce Knob, the highest point in West Virginia.

This harrowing climb along West Virginia's jagged spires is one of the only Via Ferrata on America's east coast.

This original Mason-Dixon line cairn placed in the 1760s was put in the wrong location because of the gravitational pull of the Allegheny Mountains.

Maryland's first (and last standing) toll house on America's first federal road established the state as the "Gateway to the West."

The antique hotel still has a jail in the basement, though the cockfighting ring is long gone.

Spectacular mineral formations fill these caves, which have been used for everything from smoking meat to stashing illicit liquor.

The first blast furnace in the United States that used coal and coke fuel instead of charcoal to make pig iron.

Three markers installed over the course of 140 years mark the point where Arkansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma converge.

The meeting of the northwestern corner of Delaware, the northeastern corner of Maryland, and the southern edge of Pennsylvania.

This pre-Revolutionary War grist mill ground corn and flour for soldiers in seven American wars.

This national landmark is also home to a massive treehouse.

Narrow gorges and deep pools created by long-ago glaciers.

The only geyser in the state of Pennsylvania is caused by pressure from an abandoned coal mine outside of the ghost town Centralia.

In the bowels of a 19th-century brewery lurks a fine-dining restaurant offering an array of themed feasts.

These unique rock formations were created during the Ice Age.