Places BeerAndLoathing Wants to Go

A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.

This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.

This former mining hub holds a surprising abundance of undisturbed relics from the Old West.

A peg-legged tightrope walker did not reveal his name as he was dying, and so he was buried as “Rope Walker."

The body of an unidentified woman, visible through a glass coffin, was discovered by accident.

Turns out fishing with dynamite isn't all that safe.

A small window was installed in this gravestone to honor a young boy's dying wish.

This tombstone marks the spot where the legendary British spy met his end.

This mysterious pyramid is said to be part of a complex web of occult and Freemason symbols.

This curious gravestone tells the legend of an unknown mariner's grisly murder.

A Manhattan tombstone honors a popular 19th-century heroine, now long forgotten.

In Union Cemetery, a petrified tree stump marks the grave of a notable mineralogist, mine owner and oilman.

This freshwater spring fills with 10,000 gallons of water per minute.

Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.

Burial ground for revolutionary veterans attracts tall tales, ghost hunters, not enough historians and preservationists.

This beautiful defunct water tower adds a European flair to a traditional Japanese neighborhood.

Eight "Guardians of Health" protect this art deco water tower from pollutants and bacteria.

Don't pass Gas, stop and enjoy it.

Water-themed sculptures guard this unusually square structure.

A water tower shaped like a giant coffee pot looms over a small Swedish village in Central California.

This water tower commemorates the invention of the transistor on this site in 1947.

This spacecraft-shaped water tower is only a part of the mysterious UFO mania in this Brazilian town.

A fruit-loving town welcomes visitors with a giant melon set against the sky.

This water tower has been a staple of the Rochester skyline since 1931.