Places jimvmurray Wants to Go

The world's tallest box hedge is found in a delightful garden.

An unusual manor of stunning beauty, born out of a crippling disease.

A hugely vast Irish landscape of barren rock that stretches for miles.

The oldest Dutch colonial stone house in New York City is a hidden gem on the border of Brooklyn and Queens.

This trail leads to a mine that was used as a sanctuary during the Great Fire of 1910.

The quarry was abandoned over 100 years ago, after a massive ammunition explosion ended in tragedy.

This historic park site contains the last remnants of a once bustling canal system.

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

Locals purchased this abandoned quarry in order to make sure it continues to be overgrown.

The attic and basement house two museums stuffed with oddities like swallowed spoon handles and a shrunken head.

A 19th century hat factory still stands as a crumbling ruin in upstate New York.

This relic of 19th-century infrastructure is one of the few remaining coal gas storage tanks in the U.S.

This Central New York ghost town was once a prosperous railroad community.

The highest point in Connecticut was incorrectly memorialized before surveyors discovered the actual spot.

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

The largest known open fault in the United States is basically a giant natural refrigerator.

The schoolhouse where Jesse Merwin, the inspiration for the "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" character, once taught.

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

Believe It or Not, Ripley once called this chiseled mountainside “New York’s Mount Rushmore”.

The site of one of history's most indelible and horrific tragedies.

The first partially complete dinosaur skeleton was discovered here, forever changing the world's view of the ruling reptiles.

A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.

The location of Puerto Rico's first water bottling plant, thanks to a collaboration between Mother Nature and technology.

This old selenite mine is dotted with tiny crystals that make it shimmer like it's covered in glitter.