Places gwenw Wants to Go

An eccentric playboy's astounding natural history collection.

The only American museum exclusively dedicated to the exhibition of gloves.

Stand at the center of this lakefront sundial, and you'll become part of the timepiece.

Astonishing collection of helmets, scientific instruments, and medical models.

An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

What was once a trend-setting, phrase-coining icon of architectural splendor is now a rotting, forgotten hulk.

Why have you never heard of the second most popular tourist site in New York?

A museum designed by and dedicated to P.T. Barnum in the town where he is buried.

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

A peaceful international sculpture garden in upstate New York.

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

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

A short nature trail winds through the greatest works of poet Robert Frost.

The "original web site," this farm in Northern Vermont encourages orb-weaver spiders to build their daily webs, and then sells the preserved masterpieces.

This whimsically unique butterfly farm focuses solely on creating habitats for the gentle insects.

A mysterious echo seems to defy the laws of acoustics.

The intriguing personal collection of a professional demon-chaser.

This museum on a college campus pays tribute to the Arctic and to two explorer alumni.

Three acres of mythology-inspired sculptures are visible from the highway.

Come for the gun-toting hillbilly madman, stay for the ice-cream loving basketball bears.

These towering spires and glowing walls are carefully crafted from hundreds of thousands of icicles.

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

A CT scan revealed the identity of this 3,000-year-old mummy that everyone erroneously thought was female.