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The Atlas Obscura Guide To Pawling

2 Cool, Hidden, and Unusual Things to Do in Pawling, New York

Updated November 15, 2017

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Akin Free Library.

Pawling, New York

Akin Free Library

The attic and basement house two museums stuffed with oddities like swallowed spoon handles and a shrunken head.
Rainbow's End Butterfly Farm

Pawling, New York

Rainbow's End Butterfly Farm

This whimsically unique butterfly farm focuses solely on creating habitats for the gentle insects.
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Wingdale, New York

Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center

An abandoned asylum once on the cutting edge of lobotomies may be reborn as a Christian college.
5 miles from Pawling

New Milford, Connecticut

Gaylordsville Spite House

The best revenge is a five-tiered layer cake of a dwelling.
8 miles from Pawling
Sap tubes in the maple forest at Crown Maple.

Dover Plains, New York

Madava Farms at Crown Maple

The second largest maple syrup producer in the U.S. runs a high-tech operation.
9 miles from Pawling
Lion Guardians of the Bodhi Path

Carmel Hamlet, New York

New York's Chuang Yen Monastery

The largest Buddha statue in the Western Hemisphere is just 50 miles north of NYC.
11 miles from Pawling
Closing off the road to Oniontown.

Dover Plains, New York

Oniontown

This isolated community does not want you to visit.
11 miles from Pawling
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