Places From the Backwoods Wants to Go

Cryptid lake monster honored with its own monument.

Scary metal statues adorn some of the signature buildings of Burlington, Vermont.

A forest wonderland caused by Burlington, Vermont's aggressive southwestern winds.

The strange, ritualistic-seeming 100+ year old basement of a New Hampshire undergrad society.

An 80-year-old house built out of newspapers.

A historic custom house with ties to George Washington is now a shrine to local nautical history.

This picturesque abandoned home is rumored to be a spite house.

Carved, egg-shaped stone with no explanation.

A gardener's enduring labor of love is spread throughout a small Vermont town.

With the chapel itself being left to moulder, the cemetery of this abandoned church might be the freshest part.

This rare polygonal meeting house is rumored to be built in a circle so that the devil has nowhere to hide.

A stone memorial erected for New Hampshire's only convicted witch.

Nature and religion are reunited at this unconventional church in the forest.

This folk art dinosaur was almost pushed to extinction due to lack of a building permit.

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

The remains of a deserted 1800s farming community can be found in Little River State Park.

Tour the world's largest deep-hole dimension granite quarry, where you can view the plant where gravestones are made and roll a ball down the outdoor granite bowling alley.

Stumps of an Ice Age forest, visible only at low tide.

Beautiful hillside Vermont cemetery with amazing funerary art.

Birthplace of America's first documented serial killer.

This narrow canyon has been carved by the river over thousands of years into spectacular and curious forms.

The New England cabin where an infamous British occultist conducted experiments in "magick".

The once-abandoned 140-year-old hotel used in the movie "In Dreams."

The quaint little Vermont town played a quaint little Connecticut town in Tim Burton's "Beetlejuice."