Places From the Backwoods Wants to Go

All that remains of this Massachusetts town, demolished in the name of progress, is a stone marker.

A careful eye can find hundreds of dinosaur tracks running along the Connecticut River.

What remains of the simple red brick chapel where the women's rights movement began.

This statue commemorates the meeting of the most influential minds of the women’s rights movement.

A small obelisk marks the spot where Captain Sam Greele was killed by a falling tree.

Founded by the famed children's book artist, this museum spreads an appreciation of the arts through picture books.

The walkable ruins of an 19th century hotel, destroyed in a horse cremation gone wrong.

A deteriorating 1990s Girl Scout camp in a beautiful lush park on Lake Ontario.

The monumental steeple on Amherst College's campus has no church attached to it.

The mighty room where the poet spent most of her life is available to rent for an hour or two.

The site of the first "historically true" UFO encounter in the U.S.

The world's largest kaleidoscope, designed by a 1960s psychedelic artist.

One of the most scenic falls in Massachusetts has a history of death and grim legend.

A remnant of the 19th-century dream to discourage people from drinking booze by offering them water.

This rare symbol of Eastern philosophy in the West has been created over years of painstaking construction by the local community.

This small-town library was the first in the world to be entirely supported by taxation.

This giant Massachusetts sycamore is said to hold the dubious distinction of being the "widest tree East of the Mississippi!"

This 150 foot seven-tiered cascading waterfall is one of the hidden gems of the White Mountains.

Stay at this storybook estate, featuring Sir Henry Hudson Kitson's masterpiece "Gingerbread House."

Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.

Locals purchased this abandoned quarry in order to make sure it continues to be overgrown.

This tall Massachusetts folly got its name thanks to all of the purple prose its vistas inspired.

The final resting place of the man who played the Invisible Man.

The mansion home of author Edith Wharton.