Places ams199 Wants to Go

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

This 29-ton granite ball spins around at the slightest touch thanks to a scientific phenomenon.

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.

The winding route passes through an enclosed alleyway, two tunnels, and leads to the White House basement.

This abandoned bridge to nowhere stands secluded in the woods of a Cleveland suburb.

What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.

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

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

Once adorning a New York skyscraper, these reclaimed ruins now haunt an Indiana park.

An astounding collection of medical specimens, including bits of President Lincoln.

Nikola Tesla's former home contains an homage hidden from plain sight.

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

A storefront museum in Asbury Park honoring the Jersey Shore’s deep history of mystery—including the Jersey Devil.

Constant erosion has created a surreal landscape of bleached and preserved fallen trees.

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

An unoccupied lighthouse encased in layers of ice from the waters of Lake Erie.

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.

This high point in the Great Smoky Mountains is said to be home to the chief of all bears.

America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.