Places afink Wants to Go

This California artist's front yard acts as a gallery for his unique, scrap metal animal sculptures.

This little museum in the town where zombies were born celebrates the living dead.

This Pennsylvania cave holds evidence of the oldest known inhabitants of North America.

10,500 square feet of pinball housed in former dollar store and home to the last playable "Thunderball."

Francis Julius LeMoyne built this crematory in 1876; he was the third person to be cremated here.

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

Where the "World Pinball Champion” is crowned.

Pittsburgh's literal underground railroad.

These recently uncovered walls are all that's left of Washington, D.C's first defense contractor.

A derelict bit of transportation infrastructure hidden in the woods.

A celebrity from the late Cretaceous period.

Cold War intelligence agents monitored communist embassies from an attic in a former pigeon coop.

A benevolent, 16-foot-tall river dragon lives on a suburban lawn.

A building shaped like the Army Corps of Engineers logo, because why not?

This forgotten boat elevator was an engineering marvel in its heyday.

The sci-fi villain is a little-known inhabitant of the U.S. capital's largest cathedral.

A tiny piece of the Moon is embedded in this stained glass masterpiece.

A clone of a cloned tree that was so important it allegedly had its own guards.

Enormous piles of historically significant stones, dumped by Congress in a forest, and abandoned for 60 years.

Giant acorn-shaped 19th century gazebo from which suburban Washingtonians gazed upon the original "silver" spring.

Washington's top-secret Cold War-era doomsday communications tower is located in a small neighborhood park.

An eerie, decaying ghost town destined to fade into the forest.

These abandoned waterworks are crumbling into the Potomac River.

An allegorical sculpture in Maryland wears the artist’s politics on its trunk.