Places Monster Creek Wants to Go

Wood carving meets bird conservation at this museum showcasing the life's work of one man.

Three wooden middle fingers raised in protest.

Inside this old mill is a collection of images that will always remain frozen in time.

A mountain pass used by Prohibition-era bootleggers to facilitate traffic into and out of Canada from Vermont.

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

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

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

These World War I shooting range tunnels are now haunted halls of underground graffiti accessed through the roots of a tree.

This large cemetery is known as the museum of granite sculptures.

One car at a time please.

A cable-suspension footbridge that hangs high above the Mill River.

Small rustic cabin nested in the mountains of Killington, Vermont.

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

Two distinctive homes on a New England village green look like a couple of frosted wedding cakes.

This magnificent Japanese garden provides a moment of Zen in rural Vermont.

A gorilla holding a VW Beetle isn't what you'd expect in rural Vermont.

The Vermont grave of a 4,000-year-old mummy prince.

A tomb with a window to ensure the interred wasn't buried alive.

This charming woodland trail is peppered with poetry.

Nothing says indulgence like a 1,500-pound chocolate castle.

This Pennsylvania cave holds evidence of the oldest known inhabitants of North America.

In an odd geographic anomaly this city borders two different states on opposite sides of town.

This California artist's front yard acts as a gallery for his unique, scrap metal animal sculptures.

A retrofuturistic art installation in the Pittsburgh Airport.