An Escher-inspired library dedicated to the wonders of the human mind, yet closed to the public.

One of America's oldest private membership libraries was long one of New Haven's best kept secrets.

A miniature village lies nearly forgotten in the forest by the side of a major highway.

A quirky assortment of musical marvels from around the world.

An abandoned Depression-era zoo hidden just off the highway.

A famed data visualizer's personal sculpture garden is a landscape of modern and megalithic wonders.

Home of Philip Johnson, one of the 20th century's most influential architects.

137 graves holding New England's earliest residents.

An archival collection of over 2,200 case studies which includes human brain specimens and tumor specimens.

This old cement mine has been used as everything from a mushroom farm to a recording studio.

Books bound in human skin and H. P. Lovecraft's letters are among a few of the treasures this library has to offer.

The studio of influential composer Charles Ives is perfectly reconstructed, hidden in the back of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

The first and only carousel with a lineup entirely of insects.

The highest point on the island known for buildings that touch the sky.

Protecting the future of some of the rarest and most misunderstood mammals of North America.

The largest Buddha statue in the Western Hemisphere is just 50 miles north of NYC.

The first pet cemetery in the United States.

An abandoned horticulture institute gloomily presides over rows of derelict and vine-wrought greenhouses.

This forlorn park is the result of a failed investment turned tax dodge.

This derelict building used to house infirm Freemasons, their widows, and orphans.

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

This disastrous New Jersey safari park saw animal attacks, escapes, and disease before being abandoned.

The Burnside Fountain and its questionable interpretation.

An arcade packed with a rotating collection of unique independent video games.