Hey, I'm Sarah Wyman, you're listening to Atlas Obscura.

And right now I'm coming to you from an exotic new location, which is the front of a ferry

floating in the middle of the San Juan Islands in northwestern Washington.

Everywhere around me I'm turning 360 degrees on the ferry right now, and everywhere there

are just these little dots of land absolutely covered with trees.

And I'm here today because I am on my way to an adventure, a wonder, in my own backyard.

This is a prompt that we actually gave to you a couple months ago.

We asked you to send in voicemails and audio recordings from wonders that you've discovered

in your own backyard, and you guys responded with everything from natural wonders and little

mysteries.

You've uncovered in your neighborhoods that have helped you fall in love with the place

you live.

So today, while I'm on my way to the wonder in my own backyard, we're going to share

some of those stories with you.

That's coming up right after this.

My name is Molly, and I live in Burlington, Vermont.

But about 20 minutes south of us, there is a little town called Shelburn, Vermont.

And in Shelburn, there's a couple of interesting things.

The most well known one is they've got a full-size steamboat from the early 1900s, just kind

of sitting in a field.

And it has an interesting backstory because it's basically this stubbornness of some old

rich man's wife who was determined to drag the boat from the water into the field.

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