Places backroadsphotog Wants to Go

After hundreds of years of settlement, this once-bustling fishing village sunk into the Chesapeake Bay.

An eerie, abandoned military base engulfed by nature and graffiti is now home to a local park.

The remnants of a wooden-hulled fleet built and abandoned in WWI, now home to a thriving ecosystem.

Once America's tallest structure, now a Baltimore landmark.

A faded sign from the 1920s remembers Baltimore's resistance toward banning alcohol.

Ship skeletons haunt Baltimore's waterways.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

It’s not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music’s library has been described as a “cathedral of books.”

The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.

A derelict bit of transportation infrastructure hidden in the woods.

Hundreds of samples of "Devil's Rope" hide in a defunct vintage elevator.

Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.

This majestic tree has survived 400 years of storms, droughts, and floods, and is a beloved natural landmark in Missouri.

This unconventional used book store was once in the news for the surprising act of burning books.

This mansion was made famous by its colorful cast of owners and location along the Sante Fe Trail.

When an ancient supervolcano erupted, some of Nebraska's prehistoric animals were forever preserved in ash.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

The quirky collection includes treasures like Elvis' underwear, Bob Barker's toothbrush, and hundreds of sock monkeys.

This museum is dedicated to telling the story of dinosaurs from a creationist perspective. 

A theme park featuring a replica of Noah's Ark built to the measurements specified in the Bible.

Its vintage camera collection gives a snapshot of the past as viewed through a photographic lens.

A Kansas grassroots sculptor decorates the local roadways with his sculptures made from found objects.

During the 1990's nearly all of the world's LSD is thought to have come from the operators of the lab once located in this missile silo.

These elevated trucks were put in place as a middle finger to The Man, but are now considered folk art.