Places ANeon Wants to Go

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

This semi-secret garden in south Seattle emulates a traditional Japanese garden using the plants of the Pacific Northwest.

A 315-foot spire jutting out from the Blue Ridge Mountains makes for breathtaking views.

A historic covered bridge, only one of two remaining in North Carolina.

You can find America's highest suspension footbridge at Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina.

An idyllic mineral hot springs facility with a more-than checkered past.

Wild lights and sound effects turn a walk through some caves into an eye-popping 1960s tourist attraction.

Largest display of Wesleyana anywhere in the world.

This improbable contraption was passed down through five generations of industrious Tennesseans.

Visit this playground of waterfalls, caves and sinkholes.

First Joe Pagac sculpture; sculpture reflects native Tucson wildlife in an urban setting.

Get your cosplay on at Milwaukie’s only Medieval fantasy-themed mead hall.

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

A water tower shaped like a giant coffee pot looms over a small Swedish village in Central California.

Ironically this massive termite is the mascot for a company that is acclaimed for killing his kind.

Self-sufficient greenhouse floating on the Hudson River.

A waterway covered over after the Industrial Revolution has been unearthed and cleaned up, for the enjoyment of fish and humans alike.

A 19th-century cabin built into a hollowed-out Sequoia tree.

The first life claimed by this record-breaking peak wasn't lost to exposure or a fall, but rather lightning.

A hard-to-reach oasis in a desolate corner of Death Valley National Park.

This rock formation named for its unique shape is one of many that call the Alabama Hills home.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.

The location of the last stand of Charles Manson's doomsday cult.