Places BryanKnight Wants to Go

In the heart of Brigham Young's promised land sits a festering plot of industrial ruin that has been claimed by society's outcasts.

This granite monument at the site of an ill-conceived tourist attraction is built from the same stone as the Mormon Temple.

For just a few bucks, this Iowa funicular will let you feel like an 1800s fat cat.

This tiny movie theater was the last one in the U.S. constructed in the Nuevo Deco architectural style.

Home with Gothic windows featured in a famous painting.

This art deco masterpiece was once a miracle spring mecca but is now simply a government office building.

This ambitious attraction was the brain child of a lake resort impresario, and built by the WPA.

This retired stagecoach tavern is the oldest building in Cleveland.

Stairs often replace streets on the steep slopes of this old mining town.

The “American Gothic" artist's largest works hang in an Iowa State University library.

Labor provided by Great Depression-era programs restored these 25,000 acres in Tennessee.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

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

Tucked inside a South Bank bar is an epic expressionist chronicle of the 20th century.

A bright, colorful telling of the history of Mexico's youngest state.

Amid the sprawling Defense Intelligence Agency Headquarters is one of Washington's least accessible museums.

This handcrafted, old western-style town is filled with deserted cars, retired movie props, and other forms of Americana.

An allegedly cursed tree represents a town's reckoning with a racist past.

Beneath Kraków Old Town's main square lies a hologram-filled medieval market vampire graveyard wonderland.

This stone tower marks a lookout point over the historic Washington Crossing, and maybe some buried treasure.

This Soviet-era "closed town" was a top secret uranium producer often left off of maps.

This secret cemetery where no flag is allowed to fly holds the bodies of American soldiers convicted of heinous crimes during WWII.

A sober museum housed in the original administrative building of one of Stalin's largest gulags.

Five soviet prisoners of war were executed at this spot just days before the liberation of Norway.