Places Naturally Cherish Wants to Go

The library of every book lover's dreams.

A tiny monument to the classic American candy.

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

Along the Palisades skyline are the ruins of a large mansion built in 1911 and demolished in the 1930s.

The remains of a century-old mansion that met a fiery demise years after it was deserted.

A six-story treehouse offers spectacular views of New York's Finger Lakes region.

This kitschy curio wonderland is full of fake animals, teak tables, and a cacophony of random bric-a-brac.

Buildings that dynamite couldn't bring down were abandoned because of bathroom issues.

A famed data visualizer's personal sculpture garden is a landscape of modern and megalithic wonders.

A former copper mine which became a truly unsuccessful prison.

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

Contrary to what one might expect, ice forms inside this small cavern during the summer and melts during the winter.

These medicine cabinet staples are part of the museum's collection of everyday objects.

The world's third-largest crystal sphere has sat in the Penn Museum since 1927 with the exception of one outlandish theft.

One of the oldest of its kind.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

A museum in rural Utah documents the history of the Japanese Americans who were forcibly relocated there.

A communal oasis on Lake Zurich.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

The steepest classic funicular in the world glides along a dizzying incline.

Lucerne's central prison was converted into a tourist hotel with a bare minimum of changes.

The alpine falls where Sherlock Holmes apparently met his demise can actually be visited.