Places aember Wants to Go

Cliffside houses provide a spectacular view from their perch above the valley.

A beautiful but toxic fountain of mercury.

The blowhole bursts spectacularly right next to the buildings in a medieval seaside town.

A stone arch leads to a cavernous 1930s spring house tucked away in the Pennsylvania woods.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

The "All-Seeing Eye of God" symbol on this library is a clue to one of the many former lives of this building.

This small West Virginia park is a land trust holdout against mountaintop removal mining.

Winding country roads in eastern West Virginia lead to an extraordinary place populated by fiberglass giants.

A giant time capsule not scheduled to be cored until 2040.

This university transit system is a 1970s vision of the future.

This tiny man looms large over downtown Charleston.

First a root beer ad, then a golf course clubhouse, and finally a massive teapot.

Near-constant high winds deform the trees on Spruce Knob, the highest point in West Virginia.

Hikers can still stroll beneath the long conveyer of this abandoned mining facility hidden in a West Virginia river gorge.

The "mysteries" of this quintessential roadside oddity were almost destroyed by neglect but were saved by fans of kitschy wonder.

This red-eyed chrome beast pays homage to the popular modern myth of West Virginia's insectoid monster.

A small storefront museum explores the history and myth of West Virginia's famous urban legend.

An unusual, super-sized grocery adventure awaits in an Ohio suburb.

These grassy undulations on a stretch of University of Michigan campus aren't bad landscaping, they're art.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.