Places laureltree Wants to Go

This abandoned dream castle and its cemetery look out over the city that once inspired their creation.

This lighthouse and shipwreck museum keep a torch burning for the memory of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

The writing studio of an American adventure author, built in the style of a medieval castle.

This museum was once the home of industry titan Matilda Dodge Wilson.

When beetles destroyed these trees, they found new life as fantasy sculptures.

Once the extravagant escape of the Ford family, this enigmatic ruin now stands as a haunting reminder of its former glory.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

Star garnets are so rare that you can only find them in two places on Earth—here, you can dig for them.

A retired firefighter created this contraption so he and his family wouldn't die if accidentally buried alive.

Over 100 concrete munitions bunkers are all that remain of a Pennsylvanian village seized by the US government.

Construction uncovered this trove of fossils, which visitors are welcome to add to their own collections.

One of New Jersey's oldest surviving buildings still bears the mark of our former British overlords.

A New Jersey state park that was once Napoleon's brother's sprawling estate.

A boat slowly sinking into the Essex mud flats bearing the names of the disappeared that haunt the Thames Estuary.

The remains of a deserted 1800s farming community can be found in Little River State Park.

A beautiful, creepy 19th-century castle stands incongruously in rural Vermont.

An old abandoned mining town in The Adirondacks where Theodore Roosevelt first learned of the shooting of President William McKinley.

This sandstone gorge in New York State's Adirondack Mountains is home to waterfalls, flumes, and more.

The graphite created here was used in the manufacturing of pencils.

Intricate, eye-catching, award-winning rubber sculptures liven up this Pennsylvania town.

This methodist cemetery is slowly receding into the wilderness along a Maryland highway.

The last remains of one of the oldest and largest oak trees in the United States calls this state park home.

The United States' oldest Episcopal church still in active use.

Sip colonial-era cocktails at this monthly recreation of a 1740 watering hole.