Places Bluestryke Wants to Go

A failed piece of Orientalism has become the proud symbol of a community.

A modern ghost town whose inhabitants were driven away by the growth of nuclear power.

These disused steel furnaces are now haunting ruins that may one day be a national park.

The Corinthian columns that towered over Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration stand proud.

This university transit system is a 1970s vision of the future.

A favorite of Amelia Earhart, ranking among those rare bridges that can be crossed without changing sides of the river.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

This abandoned Poconos resort is haunted by a history of kitschy romance and a violent fugitive.

This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.

Minimalist modern art on a repurposed military base in rural Texas.

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.

America's post-nuclear-attack chambers of Congress.

The final resting place of a space program monolith, soon to be unveiled again to the public.

Home of the International Space Hall of Fame.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

This innocuous New Mexico storefront was once the secret jump-off spot for Manhattan Project scientists.

Seller of surplus nuclear research materials.

A hyper-luxurious, 12,000- square foot home might be buried beneath Queens, still waiting to protect you from nuclear missiles.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.