Places afink Wants to Go

Whimsical artist house in the New Jersey woods.

One of the U.S. Forest Service's only mansions is outfitted with a dinner table for floating food.

The only geyser in the state of Pennsylvania is caused by pressure from an abandoned coal mine outside of the ghost town Centralia.

It would take 35 firetrucks to fill this enormous glacial pothole.

A field of nothing but boulders which resembles a giant's gravel driveway.

Board a mine car and descend the #190 slope 300 feet underground into the Clark Vein of coal.

Buildings that dynamite couldn't bring down were abandoned because of bathroom issues.

The graffitied ruins stand hidden within the Pennsylvania woods.

This demolished goliath of American industry once loomed over the depressed town it once made thrive.

A train station that was abandoned by the coal industry and converted into a cocktail bar. Now it’s home to the local visitor bureau.

This museum sits on the site of a decommissioned military communications base.

The ruins of this Thomas-Jefferson-designed mansion have been left to crumble since the Christmas Day they burnt down.

The remnants of a wooden-hulled fleet built and abandoned in WWI, now home to a thriving ecosystem.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

The world's best collection to gauge whether or not you should wear a scarf outside.

An architecturally unique lighthouse that had to be lifted up and moved to avoid falling in the sea.

Colorful clay cliffs tower over an unofficial nudist beach on Martha's Vineyard.

The sprawling, eccentric estate of Ames and Ames, a brilliant botanist, and a genius inventor and artist.

Once a kitschy symbol for a gift shop, this 38-foot seahorse is now a staple roadside attraction.

Haunted boulder in a front yard with a witch painted on it.

A castle on a hill once named "the most beautiful high school in Massachusetts."

A plaque marks the spot on the bridge where one of the first elephants in the U.S., Little Bet, was gunned down.

A coastal rock outcrop with mysterious inscriptions variously attributed to Native Americans, Portuguese, Phoenicians, Norse, and more.

A safe space and resource for anything and everything relating to sex and sexuality.