Places joparkman Wants to Go

The biggest museum dedicated to insects in North America, one of the largest in the world.

A patch of contaminated land reclaimed as a scrappy sculptural oasis.

From lefty Jewish gathering site to hip cultural site in just 80 years.

This Art-Deco-styled, former indoor public bath is now a museum.

Small ship votives hang from the vaulted ceiling of this port-side church with a Latin inscription on the wall.

This mesmerizing kinetic sculpture blossoms endlessly in the breeze.

This crumbling industrial fortress has attracted daredevils, filmmakers, and historians.

City law dictates that this mountaintop cathedral containing the heart of a saint is to remain the tallest building in town.

Driftwood dinosaurs lurk within trees covered in a rainbow array of avian abodes.

A gardener's enduring labor of love is spread throughout a small Vermont town.

Restoring faith in humanity one pie at a time by selling stellar baked goods on an honor system.

Journey through various trails to discover a land before time along the Chazy Fossil Reef.

A pair of black granite tails dive into a sea of grass in landlocked Vermont.

Wood carving meets bird conservation at this museum showcasing the life's work of one man.

Dozens of playful sculptures blanket these 200 rolling acres of farmland in an ode to art and landscape.

This "common-as-dirt" museum celebrates the glory of normalcy.

A 150-square-foot masterpiece of American landscape art is the crown jewel of this library and art gallery in Vermont.

A New England curiosity cabinet, one hundred years on.

Beautiful hillside Vermont cemetery with amazing funerary art.

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

An ancient glacial pothole waterfall in the heart of the Green Mountains.

A gorilla holding a VW Beetle isn't what you'd expect in rural Vermont.

These mysterious petroglyphs in Vermont reflect a troubled history in the treatment of Native American culture.

A bygone village occupation lives on via this quaint public chalkboard.