Places a Wild Erik Wants to Go

Providing the soundtrack to the golden years of the Seattle grunge scene.

This Seattle museum displays the history of the telephone through an impressive collection of telecom equipment.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

The Corinthian columns that towered over Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration stand proud.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.

The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.

A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.