Places From the Backwoods Wants to Go

The only presidential monument to display a late POTUS's actual casket.

This lovely university observatory continues to sit abandoned since its potential savior was sent to jail for fraud.

Contrary to what one might expect, ice forms inside this small cavern during the summer and melts during the winter.

This abandoned bridge to nowhere stands secluded in the woods of a Cleveland suburb.

Ghost stories surrounded this “castle,” the only structure from a huge mansion that was never built.

Faces carved into the cliffs create an otherworldly walking trail.

A star fort along the C&O Canal in western Maryland that protected America in three wars.

Landmark dedicated to the plight of the American Indian in the 21st century.

The tragic reality of a village riddled with rumors of haunts, chemical spills, and serial killers.

A particularly creepy abandoned hospital that sparks interest for lovers of the supernatural.

Berkeley Springs State Park boasts the nation's only monument commemorating presidential bathing.

The highest point in Maryland is only accessible by hiking through another state.

This claimant to the title of "smallest church in the 48 states" doubles as an equally tiny, quasi-post office.

An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.

Ohio's 19th-century communist micro-society.

The 25th President's marble casket can be visited in this classical Ohio tomb.

Mausoleums, astronomy, and animatronic dinosaurs at this memorial to an assassinated American president.

A soon-to-be-forgotten roadside spectacle loaded with local lore.

A record-size collection of wild-haired troll dolls tells the story of the mythical creature's roots in Scandinavian folklore.

This alley-cum-fan gallery in the ex-Nirvana drummer's hometown holds the world's largest drumsticks.

Where the oil industry began.

This one-room cabin where the young colonel slept during the French and Indian War.

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

The brainchild of Eleanor Roosevelt, her "Little Village" was a collectivist dream.