Places From the Backwoods Wants to Go

Orr Park's dead trees have been carved into a menagerie of whimsical visages.

148 feet long and in the middle of a verdant forest.

This natural wonder drops 16 stories straight down through rare flora and streaming waterfalls.

One person’s lost luggage is another person’s treasure.

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

An illuminated manuscript comprising the life's work of a lone monk, inexplicably decorated with a portrait of Satan himself.

Stockholm's decidedly unique public transit system has doubled as the world's longest art gallery for decades.

Myanmar's beautiful cemetery for Allied soldiers who perished during World War II.

The monument honors the mountaineers who were part of Europe’s best anti-Nazi forces.

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

This quaint mortuary chapel hides a stunning Celtic Revival and Art Nouveau interior.

Skulls and skeletons are omnipresent in this church dedicated to souls trapped in purgatory.

The United States' oldest Episcopal church still in active use.

A small 19th-century graveyard tucked away in the middle of a suburban neighborhood.

Remnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mall.

One of the largest collections of Catalan literature and cultural materials outside of Spain, created by a community of 1960s expats.

An isolated island home to one of the oldest English-speaking communities in the region and Maryland's state dessert.

She stares out across six lanes of traffic, clutching a musket and infant with determination.

This 1830s store is believed to be the site of Harriet Tubman's first stand.

A swimming hole in the historic industrial quarry that supplied the marble for the Baltimore Washington Monument.

The wooded estate of the Forest Service employee responsible for D.C.’s cherry blossom trees.

Wedged between two sets of row houses is an awkwardly located family graveyard.

Proto-CIA agents trained with grenades in the sand traps and fired machine guns from the fairways.