Places marguerite27 Wants to Go

This stone gatehouse was once the entrance to a historic mountain resort, and it had a cameo in a cheesy cult horror movie.

The oldest continuously inhabited street in America.

The rustic think-space of famed naturalist John Burroughs stands exactly as he left it.

At this site, two historic stone bridges spanning the Sing Sing Kill—one right on top of the other.

Hundreds of numbered stakes hidden in the woods mark the graves of the lost souls of a nearby asylum.

Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.

This natural rock "church" might not be a proper chapel but that doesn't mean it's not beautiful.

A castle inspired by medieval architecture is hidden in the woods of Connecticut.

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

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

This mouldering abandoned mental hospital was once a center for progressive healing.

An abandoned asylum once on the cutting edge of lobotomies may be reborn as a Christian college.

Glacial erratic or man-made dolmen? It probably wasn't druids.

Reclaimed by nature, the ruins of Doodletown, New York are remnants of a town consumed by a state park.

The attic and basement house two museums stuffed with oddities like swallowed spoon handles and a shrunken head.

Astonishing collection of helmets, scientific instruments, and medical models.

The poet's been ambling through these New York woods since 1940.

A plaque on a rock dedicated to a famous, forgotten author, and put in an impossible place.

This Central New York ghost town was once a prosperous railroad community.

Believe It or Not, Ripley once called this chiseled mountainside “New York’s Mount Rushmore”.

The Brigadier General was so afraid of being buried alive that he had a buzzer installed in his mausoleum, just in case he woke up.

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

This abandoned cemetery is crumbling into ruin, exposing the artifacts and bodies buried there.