Places From the Backwoods Wants to Go

This natural rock "church" might not be a proper chapel but that doesn't mean it's not beautiful.

The Connecticut village named for its subterranean thunder.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.

An abandoned 19th century quarry in the middle of the woods, remade by unnamed wanderers into a massive series of rock thrones.

An ancient cemetery with some historic bodies underfoot.

The "possessed" house that inspired "The Haunting in Connecticut" book and movie.

The graves of a Connecticut family thought to have been plagued by a vampire.

For over 80 years, Mayan ruins stood proudly in a most unlikely location.

The vaguely man-shaped root that ate the body of the founder of Rhode Island.

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

An unusual library of dead things at the Rhode Island School of Design.

Last residence of H.P. Lovecraft featured in his story "The Haunter of the Dark."

A simple Colonial home with a past haunted by death and madness.

A virtually untouched "home on the hill" for the flora and fauna of Rhode Island.

Site of the creepy house used in Lucio Fulci's "The House by the Cemetery."

The ancient past meets the retro-future at these dinosaur tracks that are protected by a geodesic dome.

Final resting place of one of the classic authors of horror literature.

The place where Samuel "Slater the Traitor" brought the Industrial Revolution to America.

The ruins of an abandoned 18th-century town that is slowly being reclaimed by the forest.

A lighthouse on a diminutive island was one of the first of its kind to guide seamen home.

A distillery built on (and above!) mobster Dutch Schultz's Prohibition-era underground moonshine business.

This stunning Connecticut mansion is actually just a one-room-deep hoax.