Places eharjes Wants to Go

The "Skinny House" is made from scrap, salvage, and a neighbor’s kindness.

Peek through the gates at this oasis from the city, full of Old English charm.

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.

This tiny church near Sleepy Hollow contains Henri Matisse's last work, a rose window, and nine windows by Marc Chagall.

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

This once-private estate is now a dreamy, meditative garden that's open to the public.

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

The attic and basement house two museums stuffed with oddities like swallowed spoon handles and a shrunken head.

A careful eye can find hundreds of dinosaur tracks running along the Connecticut River.

This roadside attraction attracts kids with dinosaurs before blindsiding them with geology.

The largest collection of historic military firearms in the United States.

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.

New London, Connecticut still holds a grudge against its hometown son who turned traitor and burned the city.

This Connecticut chapel is a starkly modern, and surprisingly colorful, architectural rebel.

An abandoned Depression-era zoo hidden just off the highway.

The ruins of an abandoned 18th-century town that is slowly being reclaimed by the forest.

Springtime is go time for this repurposed shack and the fish it venerates.

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

The Home and murder site of the witch of Rehmeyers Hollow.

The home of possibly the least-loved U.S. president stands as a sort of unpopular Monticello.

North America’s largest collection of horological devices and home to a colossal clock with a dizzying array of features.

This extraordinary Depression-era expenditure was modeled after a postcard of a Mediterranean hotel.

The first of Lancaster's "rural cemeteries."