Places ellecagey Wants to Go

An enormous cat made of recycled wood scraps.

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

A distillery built on (and above!) mobster Dutch Schultz's Prohibition-era underground moonshine business.

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

The second largest maple syrup producer in the U.S. runs a high-tech operation.

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

This abandoned cemetery is crumbling into ruin, exposing the artifacts and bodies buried there.

This abandoned factory on the Hudson River once churned out a million bricks a week.

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

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

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

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

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

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

This once luxurious Catskills resort is now a haunting ruin.

This once sprawling resort now sits abandoned, filled with graffiti and vibrant colors from an era long passed.

At this small shop off a dirt road in the forest, the specialty is eel the owner caught and smoked himself.

A fictional town that was briefly brought to life before fading once again out of existence.

An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.

This Central New York ghost town was once a prosperous railroad community.

The former home of a disgraced local priest now hosts a mysterious secret supper club.

This memorial in the Adirondack wilderness honors the accidental death of a Scottish entrepreneur.

A mysterious echo seems to defy the laws of acoustics.

The great American road trip, but smaller.