Places kheimlicher Wants to Go

The ghost town that was one of New Hampshire's first settlements now exists as a park detailing its history.

Annual celebration commemorating the 1965 sighting of strange lights in the town.

The New England cabin where an infamous British occultist conducted experiments in "magick".

Birthplace of America's first documented serial killer.

Antique skeletons and taxidermy creatures were found crammed in a university closet.

The gravestone of the suffragist leader attracted extra visitors during the 2016 election.

In DeWitt, New York, a blanket-wrapped gas station makes a creative statement on global dependence on oil.

Home on the Hillside, and home of the first breakfast cereal.

A reversed traffic signal that was once violently misinterpreted as a statement on British-Irish relations.

An unassuming nature trail winds through dozens of tiny houses built for the wee people.

The little-known final resting place of one of America's greatest writers.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

The press that first printed the Book of Mormon.

This collection started by a Cornell professor once held more than 600 human brain specimens, including the one that belonged to its founder.

In upstate New York, gorgeous waterfalls and a watermill are slowly being reclaimed by nature.

This rare archive of original recordings and photos uncovers the early days of hip hop culture.

Curtiss is a forgotten figure in the early history of flight.

A six-story treehouse offers spectacular views of New York's Finger Lakes region.

An abandoned asylum where patients have been forgotten but their possessions remain.

Abandoned for over a century, this chilling train tunnel is now a destination for ghost hunters.

Only six people can sit inside this delightfully quaint sanctuary.

Quite possibly the last cross all humans will ever see.

Toxic waste disaster that founded the Superfund program.

Baltimore's classic clock tower was once topped by a rotating, 20-ton medicine bottle.