Places Sputnicktatorship Wants to Go

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

A forest wonderland caused by Burlington, Vermont's aggressive southwestern winds.

Journey through various trails to discover a land before time along the Chazy Fossil Reef.

Dozens of playful sculptures blanket these 200 rolling acres of farmland in an ode to art and landscape.

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

A 60-foot-tall tower provides unparalleled views of the southern Green Mountains.

A lonely memorial to the Challenger Space Shuttle, honoring the astronauts who died in 1986.

This historic folk museum celebrates the attention to detail that makes America great.

An artist sees trees as a medium for sculpture.

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

A giant toy jack made of numerous welded-together fire hydrants.

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

The world’s largest underground marble quarry is hiding in Vermont.

This unusual building straddles two countries.

A gardener's enduring labor of love is spread throughout a small Vermont town.

An ancient glacial pothole waterfall in the heart of the Green Mountains.

The "original web site," this farm in Northern Vermont encourages orb-weaver spiders to build their daily webs, and then sells the preserved masterpieces.

A New England curiosity cabinet, one hundred years on.

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

These mysterious petroglyphs in Vermont reflect a troubled history in the treatment of Native American culture.

One car at a time please.