Places brianjmaxwell Wants to Go

Someone really, really wanted to save this fast-food icon from demolition.

In the early 1900s, hundreds of Black Americans found opportunity in this now-abandoned rural community.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.

This curious and colorful space invites visitors to delve into the hidden and often mind-boggling world of caterpillars.

Pleistocene megafauna fossils are the subject of Nevada's newest state park at the northern edge of the Las Vegas metropolitan area.

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

The road plays 30 seconds of the Marine’s Hymn when driving over the grooved pavement.

Before Nixon, "watergate" meant canals.

The word "Watergate" will forever be associated with the infamous scandal in 1972, but this fountain is famous in its own right.

A scrap-metal sculpture recalls an infamous 19th-century camel.

Allegedly haunted by Walt Disney himself, this inconspicuous lamp is always kept lit in his honor.

A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

The remains of an abandoned dinosaur theme park litter the woods just off the highway.

Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.

This isolated outpost was once the only place to cross the Colorado River for hundreds of miles.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

The Louisiana sandwich shop that served Bonnie and Clyde's last meal is a museum that chronicles the criminal couple and honors the Bienville Parish lawmen who stopped their crime spree in an ambush.

A century-old miner's quarters turned mansion.

These petroglyphs created by ancient Arizonians have withstood centuries of exposure to the elements.

A giant mascot, a car bomb, and the mafia mingle in the history of a defunct restaurant chain.

This sinkhole in the Arizona desert is filled with carbonated, arsenic-rich water

This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.

This 40-room dwelling tucked within a cliff was built by the basin's prehistoric residents.