Places NG3894 Wants to Go

This manor in the woods memorializes one of the greatest birders of a generation.

A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.

More than 350 million years ago, western New York was covered in a vast sea. Today, you can dig up the remains of the plants and animals that lived there.

Western New York's largest independent bookstore doubles as a historical repository of all things Niagara Falls.

The absurd creation is a compulsory destination for selfies in Buffalo.

The final resting place of a 19th-century gold prospector and convicted cannibal.

This nearly abandoned town was once a thriving mining community until a series of fires.

A small store filled with animal skulls and other curiosities.

Inspired by a music box, a small town Vietnam vet carved an entire carousel full of animals by hand.

There are eight natural springs around town, each with a slightly different taste.

A beautiful combination of living flora with preserved bones covers the shelves of this shop.

A collection of fading fantasy tchotchkes lines this dirt road in the Colorado wilderness.

This interpretive path lets you get up close and personal with dinosaur bones.

This deserted Gold Rush town is home to a Masonic lodge that, strangely enough, still holds meetings.

Silver in the hills led to the speedy creation of this boom town and a lack of it saw the town abandoned nearly as quickly.

The world's largest carnivore sanctuary is home to over 450 meat-eating rescues.

Rather than a run-of-the-mill franchise hotel, this lodging has been decked out in dinosaur decor.

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

America's largest man-made forest was planted in an effort to bring back the past.

This burger joint is named after everyone's favorite carnival prize and is adorned with a giant one over the door.

An unusual, super-sized grocery adventure awaits in an Ohio suburb.

The inventor of a number of hybrid corn species is immortalized with a field of giant corn.

A history of tragedy and a pile of eerie stories have contributed to this house's consistent ranking as one of the most haunted places in Ohio.

Georges Seurat’s pointillist masterpiece has been recreated in Ohio in topiary form.