Places From the Backwoods Wants to Go

This historic cemetery is filled with markers that look more like candy than was likely intended.

This lovely hilltop tower was specifically built to withstand 100 MPH winds.

A tribute to the couples who brave long periods of separation during wartime.

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

This wooly sculpture supposedly marks the birthplace of a famous nursery rhyme, or not.

World's largest herd of white deer populate a former U.S. Army depot.

In upstate New York, gorgeous waterfalls and a watermill are slowly being reclaimed by nature.

A rock outcropping left by a glacier that made itself useful throughout the centuries.

The library of every book lover's dreams.

This unassuming Massachusetts residence was built with a trap door to hide escapees on the Underground Railroad.

The right to a full beard is honored by the grave of a man who was attacked and jailed due to his facial hair.

Restaurant in a 1741 farmhouse that touts the story of its haunting on its menus.

The ruins of a Massachusetts prison farm can still be found crumbling the woods of a state park.

This massive boulder is inscribed with the story of a sensational hostage negotiation dating back to Colonial times.

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

A museum dedicated to the quirky and colorful world created by Springfield's favorite son.

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.

The home of a famed utopian science fiction author has been preserved long after his predicted future in the year 2000.

Burial ground for revolutionary veterans attracts tall tales, ghost hunters, not enough historians and preservationists.

A New Hampshire grave with a grudge.

The childhood home of the meat inspector who would become the face of America.

A very big rock just plopped down in the New England woods.

A historic home with ties to the abolition and suffrage movements.

What was once a trend-setting, phrase-coining icon of architectural splendor is now a rotting, forgotten hulk.