Places From the Backwoods Wants to Go

The abandoned ruins of America's first private zoo are open for exploration in the Catskills.

A recreated sign from the movie Jumanji has become a makeshift tribute to the film's late star.

A mysterious collection of stones stand outside a small New England town.

This one-man homegrown eatery may be the world's most exclusive restaurant with its five-year waiting list.

A monument to the Mohawk people stands along an old Native American trade route.

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

The house where Rudyard Kipling wrote 'The Jungle Book' is also the location of the first tennis court in Vermont.

Come for the gun-toting hillbilly madman, stay for the ice-cream loving basketball bears.

A classic roadside attraction on Vermont's historic Route 5.

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

The railroad tunnel nicknamed the "Bloody Pit" for taking the lives of hundreds during its construction.

This sprawling 18th-century cemetery features unique and beautiful gravestones, including one shaped like a tree.

A town wears its heart on the sleeve of a smiling girl, arms flung wide open in a cheerful greeting for all who encounter her.

This locally-famous crevasse in New York State is icy all year round.

See wolves, coyotes, and arctic foxes in a natural environment smack in the middle of New York State.

The summer home and later final residence of acclaimed American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens.

The first American home of the isolated, egalitarian religion has a trove of Shaker architecture and artifacts.

This "common-as-dirt" museum celebrates the glory of normalcy.

A reversed traffic signal that was once violently misinterpreted as a statement on British-Irish relations.

A Frankenstein blend of science and art allows one tree to produce 40 different types of stone fruit.

According to folklore, Vermont's slanted windows were installed to keep witches from flying into the house.

This roadside dinosaur park offered up lumpy neon thunder lizards in the name of kitsch and education.

Small rustic cabin nested in the mountains of Killington, Vermont.