Places sarakreep Wants to Go

Secluded amid upstate New York’s Adirondack Mountains lies this subterranean emblem of a nation on the brink of nuclear war. And it's for sale.

A hamlet full of permanent Christmas spirit holds one of the earliest theme parks in the United States.

It wouldn't be long after purchasing this farm, Brown would lead his siege on Harper's Ferry.

An old abandoned mining town in The Adirondacks where Theodore Roosevelt first learned of the shooting of President William McKinley.

A feminist who put a pretty face on suffrage when she rode a horse through the Capitol.

A perfect replica of the beloved show's first set.

Tucked away on the second floor of a small town library is one of the great private Victorian taxidermy collections looking today very much like it did in 1909.

The farm where one of America's most famous folk artists created her paintings.

This locally-famous crevasse in New York State is icy all year round.

A distillery built on (and above!) mobster Dutch Schultz's Prohibition-era underground moonshine business.

This once-private estate is now a dreamy, meditative garden that's open to the public.

This isolated community does not want you to visit.

An abandoned asylum once on the cutting edge of lobotomies may be reborn as a Christian college.

The attic and basement house two museums stuffed with oddities like swallowed spoon handles and a shrunken head.

This high-perched pachyderm marks the memory of not one, but two elephants gunned down in small New England towns.

Protecting the future of some of the rarest and most misunderstood mammals of North America.

The real-life site of Ichabod Crane's infamous gourd attack.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

The home of one of America's most wealthy industrialists is now a historic site that remembers a more decadent time in the country's history.

This tiny church near Sleepy Hollow contains Henri Matisse's last work, a rose window, and nine windows by Marc Chagall.

The first pet cemetery in the United States.

Brooklyn's Barkaloo Cemetery is the resting place of a scant two bodies.

On the hills of Bay Ridge stands a house straight out of a fairy tale.

Once America's longest-manned military fort, now an abandoned hulk.