Places colemanelson Wants to Go

The superstar of Cold War nuclear bunkers has been featured in countless films but is now barely operational.

The highest bridge in America was built for an almost unnervingly small amount of money.

Once a mortuary that held the remains of Buffalo Bill, this Denver hotspot is now a death-fixated restaurant.

This modern antique shop is a museum for 1980's Saturday morning cartoon culture.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

In Florida, these naughty monkeys live on their own mini-monkey Alcatraz.

The behemoth beasts engaged in an epic battle is the second-tallest statue in the contiguous United States.

A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

This historical swimming pool near Miami is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

This massive, ancient stone was disassembled and then put back together again.

The Incredible Hulk, Yoda, Mulder and Scully, and many many others watch over the mean streets of Toronto.

This colorful creation wasn't always a welcome part of Toronto's Moccasin Trail Park.

A well-preserved network of cavernous tunnels have spent silent centuries removing Toronto's waste.

One of Canada's most incredible rare book collections holds hundreds of thousands of gorgeous tomes that the general public can touch.

A botanically themed auditorium blooms within the world’s last operating double-decker theater.

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.

The home of the artist credited with introducing the tomato to the American diet.

A giant green dragon crawls down from the roof of the Providence Children's Museum.

This beach-side arcade is believed to be the oldest penny arcade in America.

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."

This otherwise innocuous bodega was once the headquarters of the most feared assassin's guild in American history.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

An oasis of calm amid the chaos of the boardwalk, the museum traces the heritage of this beloved beachside amusement park.