Places arenfro Wants to Go

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

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

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

A 14-foot-tall Bigfoot statue stands guard over this café and filming location.

The tiny church offers succor to travelers driving by, but only eight at a time.

"The Reptile Man's" very own roadside zoo features an albino alligator.

Former farm staffed by mental patients is now a public park.

Tour a Cold War-era U.S. military missile launch site in Anchorage.

Divinely-inspired village houses 6,000 dolls, plus strange and lovely outsider art.

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

A large sculptural artwork and garden in Escondido, California.

This large collection of tiny things revels in the art of fine machinery well made.