Places Antlerpunch Wants to Go

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

This unauthorized stone mermaid was secretly carved out of public stone before being permanently preserved.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

The abandoned personal amusement park of the King of Pop.

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

A hollow cement depiction of time's inexorable effect on the human body.

The lush coastal city of Astoria is riddled with forgotten secret sidewalks.

The subtle science of a master molecular gastronomist.

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.

A mysterious monument meant to be a guide into "an Age of Reason" was destroyed after an apparent bombing.

Better known as the "Body Farm," this unique research facility has been studying how human bodies break down since the 1980s.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

An unassuming secret door once led to a legendary watering hole.

This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.

The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.

A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.

Oregon's unexpected high desert, displaying layers of time in a colorful show.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

The largest earthwork effigy in the world.