Places From the Backwoods Wants to Go

Haunted boulder in a front yard with a witch painted on it.

You can spend the night as an honorary lighthouse keeper in this quaint, historic beacon.

This historic Rhode Island mini-cemetery features a number of headstones run through with mysterious holes.

Believe It or Not, Ripley once called this chiseled mountainside “New York’s Mount Rushmore”.

An abandoned dollhouse factory.

The kind of mixed-up place that drives archaeologists crazy.

The only intersection in America where the buildings on all four corners were built pre-Revolutionary War.

The mysterious headstone of an unidentified bank robber was seen visited, every year, by a woman in black.

Off a hiking trail in Rhode Island stands a picturesque memorial to a long-forgotten war.

This once-private estate is now a dreamy, meditative garden that's open to the public.

Now the final resting place of prominent artists and musicians, it was originally founded to separate the rich from the poor in death.

This fairy tale-themed amusement park is now abandoned, and childhood metaphors abound.

The life of one of FDR's possible mistresses is preserved in her palatial Hudson Valley mansion.

Quirky castle designed by the American actor best known for portraying Sherlock Holmes on stage.

This historic park site contains the last remnants of a once bustling canal system.

Final resting place of the actress famed for her roles in Dark Shadows and Dario Argento's Suspiria.

A peaceful international sculpture garden in upstate New York.

A famed data visualizer's personal sculpture garden is a landscape of modern and megalithic wonders.

This sandstone gorge in New York State's Adirondack Mountains is home to waterfalls, flumes, and more.

The final resting place of New England's last "vampire."

This isolated community does not want you to visit.

Underground tunnels remain beneath this abandoned mental asylum.

This 50-foot rock formation looked like a face that was once believed to be that of a Native American chief.

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.