Places UpNorthGal Wants to Go

Meet Rita the Rock Planter, one of Danish sculptor Thomas Dambo's enormous wooden trolls.

This unassuming chapel in Portugal plays host to a ghoulish collection of bones.

The final resting place for the famed creator and narrator of "The Twilight Zone."

An abandoned asylum where patients have been forgotten but their possessions remain.

Launch vegetables using oversized slingshots at this Fingerlakes winery's roadside attraction.

Opened in 1947, this is the oldest continuously-operating drive-in theater in New York.

The final resting place of Harriet Tubman and other famous historical figures.

The quarry was abandoned over 100 years ago, after a massive ammunition explosion ended in tragedy.

This Art Deco fortress in upstate New York gives Manhattan's vaunted examples of the style a run for their money.

Surprisingly aquamarine waters fill deep lakes formed at the end of the last ice age.

Possibly the smallest church in the world floats in the middle of a pond.

A 10-foot-tall concrete Alley Oop statue left over from World War II now stands on the side of the road.

The shared home of a utopian commune that practiced "free love" a century before the hippies.

Visitors to Salt Springs State Park are encouraged to literally put their two cents in Penny Rock.

An allegedly haunted testament to a local businessman's desire for status, posterity, and charity.

A gazebo that inspired the fifth episode of the "Twilight Zone" still stands in the creator's hometown

This local landmark is home to art galleries and the area's only community darkroom.

A memorial to the 1913 tragedy that helped protect the workers of the future.

A monument to the sheer amount of oddities one can collect over a lifetime.

Down the road from where the Wright brothers lifted off is another flight tribute practically hidden from sight in the woods.

During World War II, blimps were a key part of the United States' defense against German U-boats—this building could house a dozen of the armed airships.

The Cadillac Ranch for monster truck aficionados.

One of the best places to see wild Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.

An alternate history park where the Union Army loses the war... to dinosaurs.