Places victorialhthompson Wants to Go

Detailed facade of a brownstone in Boerum Hill.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

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

This massive boulder is either a unique rock formation created by glacial melt or a magic energy vortex.

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

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

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

Remnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mall.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

Series of storm drains connected to a dark urban legend.

3,200-square-foot mural inside Dartmouth Library depicts the history of America with images of human sacrifice, ancient gods, and other unspeakable terrors.

The remains of a failed subway in upstate New York is now an underground graffiti bunker.

In upstate New York, gorgeous waterfalls and a watermill are slowly being reclaimed by nature.

This oversize piece of novelty cookware once cooked the largest pancake in the world.

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

A sinuous monument to the first person who was struck by a meteorite.

Developers built a Walmart around one family's plot and constructed a mausoleum in the parking lot.

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

This 38-drawer structure claims the superlative title, but it isn't the world's only giant filing cabinet.

A New England curiosity cabinet, one hundred years on.

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

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