Places From the Backwoods Wants to Go

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

Once used to screen films for theater owners to rent, this historic building is now a start up hub.

Despite being stolen multiple times, this civic electrician's street corner Snoopy won't be stopped.

Meet your friends, marry your true love, or tell your enemies to kiss your butt under this historic Pittsburgh timepiece.

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

Every December the Wannalancit Mills lights a Christmas Tree over the old mill's smokestack.

The two writers famously didn't come to blows over the Oxford comma.

This headstone-like marker inscribed with three words has been an utter mystery for over a century.

The Mysterious Witch Bonney, a haunted statue in an old industrial city.

A quaint museum nestled in a former hub of Irish moss harvesting.

A cave dug by a man directed by ghosts to find pirate treasure.

Centuries-old hoofprints and wagon tracks reveal themselves after a good winter storm.

The macabre graffiti spectacle in a quarry in a Massachusetts forest reservation.

At the supposed instruction of Ben Franklin and Socrates, a Spiritualist believer intended to birth a mechanical messiah here.

The Atlantis of Cape Cod reemerges during the lowest of tides.

This historic graveyard monument is dedicated to a tragic victim of witch trial hysteria.

This small stone chapel is a hidden gem just outside the University of New Hampshire campus.

The only one of New Hampshire's original 14 World War II watchtowers to survive in near-original condition.

Scene of the grisly murder of two Norwegian women in 1873.

The most photographed house in Maine looks good enough to eat.

The world's oldest and largest museum of mass transit vehicles.

For nearly 200 years the same family has harvested ice from a small pond in eastern Maine.

This Maine bridge may be the last wire-supported bridge of its type in the world.