Places Timbersey Wants to Go

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

A former infectious disease laboratory chronicles how tuberculosis shaped a village nestled in the Adirondacks.

Dozens of houses in the Adirondack Mountains are reminders of a literal "cottage industry" to cure people of a deadly disease.

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

Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.

The first pet cemetery in the United States.

An abandoned gun-funded 19th century utopia.

All that remains of the Whittall mansion are the ruins of the formal garden and its pergola, dedicated to the late Matthew J. Whittall by his widow.

At Brandy Station, Civil War soldiers left their mark on the battlefield and the walls of this small wooden house.

Amazing pre-Civil War ruins alongside a shallow, rocky river that hosts beautiful (but endangered) lilies.

Trace the history of writing at this unusual North Carolina destination.

This rare polygonal meeting house is rumored to be built in a circle so that the devil has nowhere to hide.

The only certified Trappist brewery outside of Europe hides in the central Massachusetts hills.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

Quirky castle designed by the American actor best known for portraying Sherlock Holmes on stage.

This New England covered bridge is home to the tale of a jilted lover known to haunt the area.

The quaint little Vermont town played a quaint little Connecticut town in Tim Burton's "Beetlejuice."

Industrial ruin decimated this tiny New England company town in a fashion no one saw coming… and even fewer remember today.