Places laurencefinn Wants to Go

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

An artist of the American Revolution is entombed beneath the Yale art gallery he founded.

After decades of neglect, a brutalist icon is getting new life as an eco-friendly hotel.

A living antique aviation museum in the historic town of Red Hook, New York.

This mouldering abandoned mental hospital was once a center for progressive healing.

The world’s first stop-motion film was created on the racetrack outside this building.

This redwood is a historic landmark, a town’s namesake, and the dancing sideline symbol of Stanford University.

A burnt orange monolithic dome structure perched on a hillside near Interstate 280.

This pair of centuries-old magnolia trees was once struck by a Babe Ruth home run.

It’s all about the Benjamins at this Atlanta museum with interactive exhibits.

After being inoperative for over half a century, this elaborate fountain in Atlanta's oldest park was restored to its former glory.

A popular oddity on display in a stately building, offering a symbolic commentary.

Georgia’s last drive-in movie theater is a relic of a bygone era.

The small first-floor apartment where the author wrote her Pulitzer Prize-winning book 'Gone with the Wind.'

Two Civil War-era cemeteries stuck between runways at the world's busiest airport.

Unruly residents were housed in this one-person cell until the Black Maria arrived.

This "living building" on Georgia Tech's campus is home to a blueberry orchard, honeybees, and more than 900 solar panels.

The only subterranean ping pong table in Atlanta.

Beside some power panels, a plaque celebrates the history of an alternate world.

An old bank vault in Atlanta is now the eternal shrine to the King of Rock and Roll.

No passport is required to eat around the world at this elegant restaurant.

A hidden oasis just two minutes from downtown Atlanta.

One of the world’s largest collections of paper memorabilia chronicles 4,000 years of papermaking.

This stone is a marker of one millionaire's personal vendetta against gravity.