Places bradjiles Wants to Go

The national park was once a plantation estate.

The absurd creation is a compulsory destination for selfies in Buffalo.

France's high-tech, future-themed amusement park.

A sweet tribute to Georgia's official state vegetable, which even has its own mascot: "Yumion."

A cement mixer-turned-kaleidoscope in downtown Norfolk offers different views of the city.

All that remains of a gigantic earth-moving machine.

A chaotic collection of coin-operated slot machines designed to delight and disturb in equal measure.

New York City's first Modernist house.

One of the world's largest automobile junkyards is a unique landscape of metal and moss.

A slightly surreal menagerie of structures that were lovingly spared from demolition and reconstructed in a field.

A half-mile long and three stories high, this bridge over the Des Moines River Valley mimics a descent into a mine shaft.

Curtiss is a forgotten figure in the early history of flight.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

Nature and religion are reunited at this unconventional church in the forest.

A thriving Black community was destroyed by an angry white mob at this site in 1923.

This spot in St. Louis, marked with a simple sign, has seen more pro baseball than just about anywhere else in the world.

This natural wonder drops 16 stories straight down through rare flora and streaming waterfalls.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

This steamer is known as "The ship that built Cleveland."

The forest that inspired Winnie-the-Pooh's Hundred Acre Wood can be found outside London.

Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.

This anonymous businessman sculpted in bronze became an enduring memorial after 9/11, and had been mistaken by rescue workers for a survivor in the rubble.

Funded by John D. Rockefeller, this is one of the earliest, and most beautiful, shopping arcades in America.

The Cambridge pub where Francis Crick announced that he and James Watson had discovered the DNA double-helix.