Places beckerbri Wants to Go

An eerily abandoned stone tower is all that remains of a demolished dam on Cape Fear River.

The antique barns in Cameron are not painted with your grandfather's Mail Pouch Tobacco murals.

Art museum based around the collections accumulated over 58 years by one eccentric thrift store owner.

A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.

Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.

When life gave this firefighter a forest fire, he made a rough-hewn sculpture park using a chainsaw.

The only nuclear weapon assembly and disassembly plant in the U.S.

A 90-foot-tall psychedelic "tree" on the side of the highway has baffled passersby for decades.

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.

Despite its name, this route in southern Utah offers a heavenly day trip.

One man has installed bathtubs into the Utah desert floor to harness the powers of a natural hot spring.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

A breathtaking array of ancient Pueblo structures and artifacts counterintuitively preserved by neglect.

An abandoned amusement park based on the popular 1940s Red Ryder comic strip.

Crumbling remnants of what was once a booming town full of silver.

A burnt-out motel with priceless Native American artwork in the basement, redeveloped into apartments.

A sprawling collection of over 106,000 toys from around the world.

This pseudo-steampunk weapons facility is the world's largest wood and glue structure, and packs quite a wallop.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.