Places ksk Wants to Go

Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

The gilded vestiges of a sterling department store can still be found in a Brooklyn shopping center.

While it now takes more than a dime to open an account this historic Brooklyn bank still displays the opulence of the gilded age in which it was built.

A famed data visualizer's personal sculpture garden is a landscape of modern and megalithic wonders.

True to its name, this bouncy walkway may be the world’s smallest suspension bridge.

Sculptures, jams, and the wild west collide at this folksy retreat.

Steam engines and conveyor belts are remnants of a genius system left in the middle of the Maine woods.

A century after his death, this covered bridge still calls to mind the plein air painter who loved it.

This narrow canyon has been carved by the river over thousands of years into spectacular and curious forms.

This former theme park in New York's Adirondack Mountains fell into ruin before being resurrected as a state-run campground

The world's oldest and largest museum of mass transit vehicles.

The second largest maple syrup producer in the U.S. runs a high-tech operation.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

An old trolley bridge was converted into a breathtaking garden bursting with colorful flowers.

Over 50 whirling pools left behind from the glacial age.

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

A New England ghost town features a trail of boulders etched with intriguing life lessons.

Palatial mansion estate used in films including "Flowers in the Attic" and "The Witches of Eastwick."

The railroad tunnel nicknamed the "Bloody Pit" for taking the lives of hundreds during its construction.

This abandoned radar station from the Cold War era now only broadcasts a seriously ominous air of isolation.

Overgrown ruins of a turn of the century island fort that sees very few visitors.

A lighthouse on a diminutive island was one of the first of its kind to guide seamen home.