Places laureltree Wants to Go

What began as an art installation is now the private drinkhaüs for a brewery's employees.

An outlandish shoe shaped house built by an eccentric millionaire.

The tombstone of the founder of the lost town of Ogletown is now stuck inside a traffic median.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

A beloved horticultural oasis on the grounds of a wealthy family's former estate.

This hidden gem of a garden has one of the only surviving Victorian ferneries in America.

Metal monsters made from repurposed materials lurk alongside this Pennsylvania road.

Outside a small brewery, a Gothic fountain that once provided water to thirsty horses.

The ruins of this once-grand mansion are linked to one of the country’s most popular clothing brands.

The ruinous former neo-classical mansion was built for Thomas Fraser of Strichen.

The ruins of an 18th-century mansion that was once named "Mistake" by the man who had it built.

A once extravagant mansion, now reduced to ruin.

Hidden in the hills of Western Pennsylvania lies one of the best-kept ghost towns in America that you can legally visit.

Built in the 1850s, this church was of the first five churches constructed in Harper's Ferry.

Historic barracks utilized during both the Revolutionary War and the Civil War.

The eerie ruins of a remote abandoned hamlet said to be founded by the survivors of a shipwreck.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

Learn about our ancestral eating habits at the passion project of an archeologist.

These waterfalls can be twins or triplets, depending on how much it's rained recently.

In the Ozarks, a waterfall shoots out from a glorious hole.

There are no bodies inside these stone coffins. And there never were.

A ruined castle made famous in German movies and TV productions.

This limestone outcropping was once a ceremonial site for ancient Native Americans.

Where hills of dirt conceal the burial ground of one of the most powerful ancient Native American societies.