Places aimeebint Wants to Go

A startling waterfall, not far from a roadside viewpoint.

This rare, carefully curated collection showcases the history of neon inside a grandiose Elks lodge.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

A fine, large-aperture telescope available for public use.

Nuclear reactor created the plutonium used on Nagasaki.

The sail of the first nuclear sub to circumnavigate the world.

Perhaps the world's only gas station inspired by a political scandal.

An outsider art duo's yard has been turned into a whimsical public gallery.

A tiny village in Upstate New York ushered in the precursor to drive-in movies.

This Catskills museum preserves stumps from the earliest known fossil forest on Earth.

This stave church nestled in the Catskills was built in the 1960s by a community of Ukrainian immigrants and refugees.

The world's largest kaleidoscope, designed by a 1960s psychedelic artist.

Homemade rockets, dinosaurs, and robots make this New York small business much more than a furniture store.

Beneath its placid surface, one of New York City's primary sources of drinking water hides a haunted past.

This stone gatehouse was once the entrance to a historic mountain resort, and it had a cameo in a cheesy cult horror movie.

The oldest continuously inhabited street in America.

A building made mostly of cast iron features a 1:45 scale lego model of its self.

This sound-art installation features songs composed using only the Mid-Hudson Bridge as an instrument.

This mouldering abandoned mental hospital was once a center for progressive healing.

This once-private estate is now a dreamy, meditative garden that's open to the public.

What was once a trend-setting, phrase-coining icon of architectural splendor is now a rotting, forgotten hulk.

The only intersection in America where the buildings on all four corners were built pre-Revolutionary War.

Neon signs that grace the windows of Bergdorf Goodman's and Tiffany & Co. come from this studio in Brooklyn.

An abandoned dollhouse factory.