Places asdonkar Wants to Go

On top of Gibbet Hill lie the ruins of a lavish turn-of-the-century estate that never quite came to be.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

Turns out you can see the world without ever leaving Maine.

The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.

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

The highest point in Maine is a grand gift to the state citizens that also happens to be one end of the Appalachian Trail.

The multinational Burger King chain is banned from operating within 20 miles of a family restaurant filed under the same name.

Doris Duke's lasting collection of Islamic Art, hidden in a Hawaiian paradise.

12,000 sq. ft. museum tracing erotic art from antiquity to modern times.

This Connecticut chapel is a starkly modern, and surprisingly colorful, architectural rebel.

This Little Rock legend has survived decades of rowdy crowds, three fires, and a zombie wedding.

An Escher-inspired library dedicated to the wonders of the human mind, yet closed to the public.

Sleep where gangsters fell amidst smoke and flame, with nary a bullethole to show for the legendary struggle.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

The highest point in Alabama was almost completely deforested, but is now home to protected towers and trees.

This architectural triumph is the only Frank Lloyd Wright house in Alabama.

What began as a prominent Burning Man art piece is now an iconic symbol of downtown Reno.

An eccentric millionaire's personal curio collection includes at least one shrunken head.

This mother-daughter run curiosities shop is a beautifully odd mix of taxidermy and exotic plants.

This Nevada lake holds its titular natural pyramid and, if the legends are true, a number of dangerous spirits.

The eerie ruins of a remote abandoned hamlet said to be founded by the survivors of a shipwreck.

Ancient cliffs resembling a kilt on Scotland’s second-largest island emit an entrancing sound.