Places gobae Wants to Go

A 19th-century blast furnace that played a big role in the area’s industrial development.

This extraordinary model train layout covers over 1,700 square feet, with multiple trains running simultaneously.

A life-sized recreation of the megafauna that once roamed this region is a feature at the birthplace of American paleontology.

A quirky roadside sign was the subject of a years-long legal standoff over highway right-of-way clearances. 

This small, independent museum documents the unique culture of Deaf people in the United States.

Believed to be the capital of the the ancient kingdom of Dál Riata.

This museum celebrates a legendary railroad photographer whose personal life was as dramatic as his photos.

This mill played a key role in the region’s development and it is just one of ten along the east coast of the United States.

A well-preserved example of an early industrial operation in the northeastern United States.

This handcrafted, old western-style town is filled with deserted cars, retired movie props, and other forms of Americana.

This small museum dedicated to the painful memory of segregation is essentially a time capsule.

Dedicated to this region's early settlements and rich history of salt mining.

More than 350 million years ago, western New York was covered in a vast sea. Today, you can dig up the remains of the plants and animals that lived there.

A small cave hidden deep within the Jenny Jump State Forest.

Rusted and decayed, this former mining site is a portal to the past.

In the middle of a New England forest sit the crumbling ruins of World War II-era ammunition storage bunkers.

Unique collection containing a wide and curious range of contraceptive items.

This cavernous abandoned marble mine is popular with ice skaters in the winter.

This magnificent Japanese garden provides a moment of Zen in rural Vermont.

The only surviving building of historic West Boylston, which was flooded to create the Wachusett Reservoir.

Designed as a place for patients to take in the scenery, this tower has a dark history.

One car at a time please.

This large cemetery is known as the museum of granite sculptures.

This Catskills museum preserves stumps from the earliest known fossil forest on Earth.