Places adamU Wants to Go

Bizarre Cavern.

The final resting place of the great escape artist, where some still gather to wait for his escape from death.

This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.

This bright yellow relic is the final survivor of a short burst of seashell-shaped petrol pumps.

The crumbling remains of a 19th century fortess.

Graffiti, cars, and religion combine to create this jungle of scrap in the Nevada desert.

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

Prehistoric animals decorate this popular outdoor park.

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.

Ruins of a Carnegie family mansion on Cumberland Island.

Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.

The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.

A bigger-than-life pun that has become a beacon of altruism.

These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.

The Magical World of George Phar Legler.

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.

World's oldest operating science fiction and fantasy club, once home to Ray Bradbury and L. Ron Hubbard.

Tour the world's largest deep-hole dimension granite quarry, where you can view the plant where gravestones are made and roll a ball down the outdoor granite bowling alley.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

The abandoned personal amusement park of the King of Pop.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.