These strikingly barren, rolling red hills were caused by bad farming practices.

The headquarters of the Fraternitas Rosae Crucis, complete with Rosicrucian pyramids, all in the Pennsylvania woods.

The first bridge observation tower in the U.S. offers one of the best views of Maine.

A beautiful, water-filled quarry that has become a popular haunt for swimmers and artists.

A ruined mansion hidden in the woods of the Hudson Valley, home of a tragically doomed romance.

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

Believe It or Not, Ripley once called this chiseled mountainside “New York’s Mount Rushmore”.

This Catskills museum preserves stumps from the earliest known fossil forest on Earth.

The highest point in the state of New Hampshire, and while unlikely "the worst weather in the world," it sure seems that way to hikers.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

The library of every book lover's dreams.

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

A Frankenstein blend of science and art allows one tree to produce 40 different types of stone fruit.

A chance to sleep among the firs and pines of the Oregon forest.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

Explore the dark underground corridors of this graffiti-covered former military fortification.

The world's largest rotating world.

This tiny patch of arid sand sits in one of the greenest states in the United States.

Locals purchased this abandoned quarry in order to make sure it continues to be overgrown.

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.

Walk the same tracks that once ferried Gilded Age aristocrats to their vacation destinations.

This narrow canyon has been carved by the river over thousands of years into spectacular and curious forms.

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

The macabre graffiti spectacle in a quarry in a Massachusetts forest reservation.