Places kensears37 Wants to Go

A much-maligned monument to teetotalism.

This abandoned ironworks was once the most important military supplier in America.

A ruined mansion hidden in the woods of the Hudson Valley, home of a tragically doomed romance.

Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.

An unassuming, powerful monument north of the U.S. Capitol bears witness to the resilience of Japanese Americans during a time of grave injustice.

This old cement mine has been used as everything from a mushroom farm to a recording studio.

The Cape Cod house that whaling built.

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

The ruins of this long-abandoned unsuccessful gold mine can still be found.

One of the indelible moments of the American Revolution took place at this location.

An easy-to-miss garden in Boston's North End honors the mother of JFK and others who lost children in WWII.

Expertly restored pinball machines as far as the eye can see.

A historic covered bridge is but one example of an oddly prevalent American urban legend.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

Where America’s first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.

The universally beloved children's television figure is interred on a high hilltop in one of western Pennsylvania's oldest cemeteries.

Panoramic views of the city of New Haven and the Long Island Sound, with a side of history.

The oldest living tree in Manhattan comes shrouded in sinister legend.

Long the exclusive domain of birds and vagabonds, this little-known Central Park peninsula is open to the public once more.

The Atlantis of Cape Cod reemerges during the lowest of tides.

Enormous piles of historically significant stones, dumped by Congress in a forest, and abandoned for 60 years.

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.

A 19th-century politician who died after walking home in a blizzard is honored with this Manhattan statue.