Places megkaczynski Wants to Go

If a visit to this farmhouse feels as if you are stepping into an artistic masterpiece, you’d be right.

Forrest Gump ran past this iconic Maine lighthouse in his cinematic cross-country journey.

This museum on a college campus pays tribute to the Arctic and to two explorer alumni.

The house and graveyard used in the Stephen King spine-chiller.

A charming museum of natural history featuring dioramas and exhibits made entirely by college students.

These light, hollow rolls have been linked to Acadia National Park since the 1890s.

East meets West in this Japanese-style garden featuring plants native to Maine’s Mount Desert Island.

The mansion home of author Edith Wharton.

An eccentric playboy's astounding natural history collection.

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

The life of one of FDR's possible mistresses is preserved in her palatial Hudson Valley mansion.

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

What was once a trend-setting, phrase-coining icon of architectural splendor is now a rotting, forgotten hulk.

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

The world's largest indoor go-kart racetrack is hiding in Connecticut.

A ruined mansion hidden in the woods of the Hudson Valley, home of a tragically doomed romance.

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

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."

British troops and Prohibition couldn’t stop this spot from becoming one of the United States' oldest continuously-run taverns.

This opera house along the banks of the Connecticut River has two Tony Awards to its credit but it’s never staged a single opera.

The life-size bronze statue commemorates the ride of 16-year-old American Revolutionary War hero.

An abandoned 146-acre summer resort slowly being reclaimed by nature.

This last stalwart of the now-forgotten feminist restaurant movement served food in an activist atmosphere since 1977.