Places The Awkward Globetrotter Wants to Go

This is the cabin from which John Brown and his men launched their fateful war to end slavery on October 16, 1859.

A 20-foot statue reminds viewers of an extinct species.

The taxidermy remains of the most popular pony in children's literature.

Explore the legends surrounding these mythical sea creatures inside this museum.

A CT scan revealed the identity of this 3,000-year-old mummy that everyone erroneously thought was female.

This abandoned factory on the Hudson River once churned out a million bricks a week.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

The remains of what was once the world's steepest passenger funicular.

Home to the abandoned Tioronda Hat Works Factory, this park is a combination of woodlands and marshlands.

A 19th century hat factory still stands as a crumbling ruin in upstate New York.

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

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

Some of the smallest works of art in existence.

The remnants of a luxurious resort that saw its peak in the 1970s and 1980s has been abandoned since 2009, leaving behind the wreckage of both the hotel and a beautiful ice skating rink.

The abandoned ruins of America's first private zoo are open for exploration in the Catskills.

This former POW camp was transformed into a Cold War missile installation.

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.

An isolated island home to one of the oldest English-speaking communities in the region and Maryland's state dessert.

The graphite created here was used in the manufacturing of pencils.

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

Hike deep into the woods to explore this Gilded Age masterpiece.

These mouldering mansion ruins remember a time when the Catskills were nothing but luxury.

A winding, cliffside stretch of road overlooking the Delaware River.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.