Places John ODuill Wants to Go

The shared home of a utopian commune that practiced "free love" a century before the hippies.

A historic recreation of the golden age of the Erie Canal, abandoned for some time, slowly being restored.

A beautiful, creepy 19th-century castle stands incongruously in rural Vermont.

One of the most scenic falls in Massachusetts has a history of death and grim legend.

An elaborate, hidden model train in the Needham Town Forest.

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.

Stay at this storybook estate, featuring Sir Henry Hudson Kitson's masterpiece "Gingerbread House."

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

A man used his Civil War-era fortune to build this sanctuary in memory of his wife.

This throwback amusement park is home to rides and unique storybook figures from the past.

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

The ruins of a Massachusetts prison farm can still be found crumbling the woods of a state park.

This modern castle sat empty for decades before a fire inspired its builders to complete its luxury halls.

Home of a 28-foot tall stalagmite known as the War Club.

The "mysteries" of this quintessential roadside oddity were almost destroyed by neglect but were saved by fans of kitschy wonder.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

Hikers can still stroll beneath the long conveyer of this abandoned mining facility hidden in a West Virginia river gorge.

The remains of one of the last mining camps developed on the New River.

This abandoned school has had many lives since the early 1900s, and all of them doomed.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

A railroad tunnel that, upon its completion, was considered one of the engineering marvels of the modern world.

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

Patrick Dougherty's fantastic living tree sculptures, mind-blowing but temporary.

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