Places Midnight Maiden Wants to Go

At this hidden studio, the dying art of taxidermy is alive and well.

Hidden in an ordinary Midtown building is a one-room museum dedicated to the greatest escape artist.

Stand at the center of this lakefront sundial, and you'll become part of the timepiece.

This cavernous abandoned marble mine is popular with ice skaters in the winter.

A curious fountain that has no water and includes Satan, a crab, and 9 giraffes.

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.

A Manhattan Episcopal church with an eerie underground crypt.

The oldest continuously operating farm in New York State.

Hordes of precariously balanced stone figures crowd the shores of the Hudson River.

The first and only carousel with a lineup entirely of insects.

America's greatest forgotten garden and the former stomping grounds of Son of Sam.

The abandoned grounds and derelict greenhouses of this once-magnificent Edwardian estate are now a nature preserve open for exploration.

An abandoned horticulture institute gloomily presides over rows of derelict and vine-wrought greenhouses.

A 19th-century smallpox cemetery is being reclaimed by scrub forest and sand dunes.

Driftwood dinosaurs lurk within trees covered in a rainbow array of avian abodes.

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

This tiny patch of arid sand sits in one of the greenest states in the United States.

This delicate museum is devoted to the art and industry that once supported Cape Cod's oldest town.

One car at a time please.

For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.

This narrow canyon has been carved by the river over thousands of years into spectacular and curious forms.

The oldest continuously inhabited street in America.

This old cement mine has been used as everything from a mushroom farm to a recording studio.

A peaceful international sculpture garden in upstate New York.