Places From the Backwoods Wants to Go

This sprawling taxidermy collection celebrates the art and history of sport hunting.

The first evidence of some of the Earth's earliest life was found in this fossilized undersea grotto.

One car at a time please.

Not even a series of devastating fires could keep this odd castle in upstate New York from bouncing back.

The shared home of a utopian commune that practiced "free love" a century before the hippies.

Possibly the smallest church in the world floats in the middle of a pond.

Two distinctive homes on a New England village green look like a couple of frosted wedding cakes.

This lovely little pond is named after the hundreds of soldiers' corpses that were rolled into the waters during the French-Indian War.

This throwback amusement park is home to rides and unique storybook figures from the past.

A mysterious echo seems to defy the laws of acoustics.

A historic recreation of the golden age of the Erie Canal, abandoned for some time, slowly being restored.

The great American road trip, but smaller.

A feminist who put a pretty face on suffrage when she rode a horse through the Capitol.

This abandoned orphanage-turned-asylum witnessed a terrible chapter in Québec's history.

This water-locked cliff face is covered in hundreds of ancient pictographs.

A massive, fading granite poem is all that remains of one Whitman superfan's tribute to the famous writer.

This tiny little island has, as the name says, just enough room for its single house.

The private island of Yale's elite Skull & Bones society is kind of a dump.

The purported world's shortest international bridge connects a homeowner in Canada to his backyard in New York.

This shack nestled in a 120-acre forest of maple trees in Mont-Rigaud is a wonderland of sugary syrup.

One of Mother Nature’s geological gems, home to many prehistoric fossils.

What was once the largest mine in North America has left behind a hollow hill filled with bright blue waters.

Canada's subterranean Cold War museum has doubled as a movie set.

The remains of a paranoid inventor's hidden workshop lie in beautiful ruins amidst a Canadian park.