Places From the Backwoods Wants to Go

Achill's most recently abandoned village dates back to to the Age of Enlightenment.

This dramatic sea spire is home to the world's rarest insect and is part of the lost continent of Zealandia.

Internationally recognized group that works to protect the wolf and educate the public about its plight.

Colorful boxes placed over the dead are left to rot and crumble.

An Alaska livestock farm devotes itself to harvesting wool from creatures that once ran with mammoths and sabertooth tigers.

This whimsical stacked cabin looks like something out of a children's book.

The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.

The highest point in Indiana is curated by an Eagle scout but may be in danger of losing its record to a nearby garbage pile.

A small town museum celebrates the history of the Ohio county that produced Annie Oakley and other famous figures.

One of the first schools in the U.S. to admit students without regard to race or gender.

Peak named for an old man who liked to run in the nude.

This one-room schoolhouse in rural Arkansas dates to the 1920s, but looks like it could be the 1820s.

The final remnant of the Arkansas zinc industry is this historically protected ghost town.

Despite a recent paint job, the factory still sits empty.

A fascinating assortment of cave dwellings, medieval ruins, and sarcophagi are being devoured by the forest.

This ruined 15th-century hermitage is steeped in myth and mystery.

The ruins of an 11th-century Norman castle with a rare, perfectly circular shape.

Cornish legend says these ancient circles were people turned to stone for playing hurling on a Sunday.

A snowy highland notorious for unexplained aircraft crashes is France's own Bermuda Triangle.

A 98-room castle in the middle of Toronto that bankrupted a 19th century electricity multimillionaire.

One of Canada's most incredible rare book collections holds hundreds of thousands of gorgeous tomes that the general public can touch.

This expansive bridge in the Canadian wilderness was originally just built for friends.

An old world fairytale-land with over 350 fairy folk figurines hidden amongst 800 year old cedars.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.