Places lauracbreig Wants to Go

This small Catskills village has six independent bookstores and more bookshops than restaurants.

This charming woodland trail is peppered with poetry.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

Protecting the future of some of the rarest and most misunderstood mammals of North America.

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

This magnificent Japanese garden provides a moment of Zen in rural Vermont.

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

This once-private estate is now a dreamy, meditative garden that's open to the public.

The first evidence of some of the Earth's earliest life was found in this fossilized undersea grotto.

This whimsically unique butterfly farm focuses solely on creating habitats for the gentle insects.

Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

This petite park lets visitors see and touch examples of fossilized dinosaur tracks.

With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.

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

One New Hampshire alleyway has become home to a public gallery of feline art.

Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.

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

A free display of artistic lifesize dinosaur sculptures in a backyard garden.

35,000 grape hyacinths flow like water down a garden hill.

Located just behind a quiet residential neighborhood, this is ground zero for the Salem witchcraft hysteria of 1692.

This historic graveyard monument is dedicated to a tragic victim of witch trial hysteria.

"Try not to knock anything over!"

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.