Places ellecagey Wants to Go

A 19th-century home, embellished with gnomes.

A rubber duck made out of a decidedly different kind of rubber.

An eclectic sculpture park rises atop a giant pile of ashes in Sweden.

This massive Trojan ursine was built to be a new tourist symbol for a small Swedish town.

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

This chilly Canadian hotel has a four-month lifespan due to the unusual material it's made of.

One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.

This path is named for a mythical half-boar, half-deer creature that once roamed the Green Mountains.

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

The highest peak in the state of Vermont has some interesting features.

A mountain pass used by Prohibition-era bootleggers to facilitate traffic into and out of Canada from Vermont.

A cable-suspension footbridge that hangs high above the Mill River.

A beautiful, creepy 19th-century castle stands incongruously in rural Vermont.

This charming woodland trail is peppered with poetry.

Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.

Massachusetts memorial to murder victim Elizabeth Short near the spot where she was born.

Tirelessly maintained by a Wisconsin man named JFK.

This modest post office sits on the site of H.H. Holmes' famous murder castle.

What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.

Covered in tens of thousands of coats of paint, this Indiana attraction holds a world record all its own.

This historic home of the shag is keeping a Southern dance tradition going strong.

This tiny chapel next to a highway provides weary travelers a place to rest, pray, or maybe even get married.

A famous—but endangered—plant is on view at an unassuming nature preserve a quick drive from Myrtle Beach.

If Myrtle Beach is the mini golf capital of the world, this is its crowning glory.