Places stonoceno Wants to Go

Once part of a dam servicing an early 19th century grist mill, the tucked-way falls are a tricky-to-find urban oasis.

A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.

The ruins of this long-abandoned unsuccessful gold mine can still be found.

An FDR-era tuberculosis sanatorium has stood abandoned in the suburbs of the U.S. capital for over 30 years.

The remnants of a wooden-hulled fleet built and abandoned in WWI, now home to a thriving ecosystem.

An eerie, abandoned military base engulfed by nature and graffiti is now home to a local park.

Walk a trail through a historic Quaker town that outlawed slavery in 1777 and was a major waypoint on the Underground Railroad.

This English-inspired Maryland garden is home to acres of opulent plant life including bushes shaped into an entire fox hunt.

An intricately designed junk art house with four extravagant junk art cars hidden in the suburbs.

A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

A local farm's collection of unusual structures from a now defunct storybook amusement park.

The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

A 300-yard long natural tunnel runs through a ridge deep in the Appalachian Mountains.

Paranormal investigators claim this abandoned asylum is the most haunted spot in the eastern U.S.

In West Virginia, you can walk across the longest single-arch bridge in the Western Hemisphere.

West Virginia’s largest bog is home to rare carnivorous plants.

This harrowing climb along West Virginia's jagged spires is one of the only Via Ferrata on America's east coast.

This functioning mill was built in the 1970s using parts from several other West Virginia mills.

The largest piece of cut lead crystal adorned a grave for 75 years and is now the shining star of a glass museum.