Places From the Backwoods Wants to Go

This lakeside tower is the third attempt at getting a tourist destination to stick on the spot.

This tiny patch of arid sand sits in one of the greenest states in the United States.

This graceful little figure is a one-of-a-kind version of the cherished character.

A millionaire's abandoned swimming pool from the gilded age of one of America's most distinguished families.

An eccentric playboy's astounding natural history collection.

Haunted Victorian house that inspired a legendary "Ghostbusters" court ruling.

Beneath the mossy overgrowth covering this once-sprawling campus lies decades of history and the secrets that come with it.

The home of one of America's most wealthy industrialists is now a historic site that remembers a more decadent time in the country's history.

This World's Fair showpiece was built in Chicago, but shipped to Maine.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

This forgotten graveyard in rural New York State once served a pioneering hospital.

Hundreds of numbered stakes hidden in the woods mark the graves of the lost souls of a nearby asylum.

Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.

A fictional town that was briefly brought to life before fading once again out of existence.

An unrealized dream to wirelessly electrify the entire Earth.

This once luxurious Catskills resort is now a haunting ruin.

An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.

Marigolds, rosemary, Madonna lilies, and the Virgin’s Bower decorate this Massachusetts sacred garden.

Secluded amid upstate New York’s Adirondack Mountains lies this subterranean emblem of a nation on the brink of nuclear war. And it's for sale.

Reclaimed by nature, the ruins of Doodletown, New York are remnants of a town consumed by a state park.

This backwater graveyard in the Hamptons became a trendy burial spot and posthumous status symbol for famous artists.

Mansion and shopping center used in the 1975 film "The Stepford Wives."

A mysterious air force base built to resemble a Long Island fishing village.

35,000 grape hyacinths flow like water down a garden hill.