Places alangentile Wants to Go

The home of the founder of American landscape architecture puts his principles into practice.

Commemorating the 1948 creation of the Jimmy Fund, a Boston-based cancer charity.

Marking the location of the secret headquarters for the Counterintelligence Corps in WWII.

This Dutch-styled residential building was originally a cocoa company's World's Fair showpiece.

Four tons of weapons merge together in a memorial against violence.

A narrow fjord-like lake, the third-deepest in the United States, runs for over 50 miles into the Cascades of Washington state.

A spooky and decrepit mental health facility is slowly being replaced with newer digs.

This small village claims to be independent from Italy because it was left out when the nation was unified.

A sign marks where the two bodies of water meet.

A series of murals depict the evolution of plant life from the Precambrian to the modern day.

A seemingly out-of-place comic book surprise sits on the 21st floor of the tallest university library in the world. 

This pavement line and accompanying statue commemorates the starting point for the world's oldest annual marathon.

The taxidermied body of a bear that was a casualty of a drug trafficker’s bizarre death.

The first atheist monument on public land in the United States.

For 14 years, this former stray dog greeted every train passenger that arrived in Fort Collins.

A tribute to Samuel Wilson, who may be the original "Uncle Sam."

This supper club is a slice of old Las Vegas.

Pieces of a stone giant are embedded in the earth of this Colorado park's playground.

Two artist-designed restrooms are part of the collection at the Smith College Museum of Art.

A colorful square marks the heart of the city's LGBTQ community.

Atlanta's strange assortment of concrete pillars inspires reflection in some, confusion in others.

Mass Grave of 48 colonists killed in a raid by Native Americans and the French in 1704.

These abundant, over-the-top monuments are so widely scattered that they define the entire compact capital cityscape, often leading to jokes about whether there are more statues than residents.

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.