Places allimo Wants to Go

This too-low North Carolina railroad trestle is still a notorious big rig executioner.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

Ruins of an American Civil War iron forge still survive today.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

America's Most Wanted's set resides in this tribute to the history of crime and punishment.

A monument in Washington D.C. marks the spot from which all other roads were supposed to stem.

Rome’s legendary peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

An artificial crater field that trained astronauts for lunar exploration.

The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.

An original apothecary from 1792.

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

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

A Civil War Museum with some notable medical antiques.

Tiny observatory made big contributions to the study of the Earth's motion.