Places bryanwoerner Wants to Go

An elderly widow still operates the incredibly detailed model railroad she and her husband built by hand.

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

This sign marks the entrance to a tiny proto-state within the small country of Moldova.

This doorless 20th-century elevator doesn't stop or slow down.

A curious collection of oddities including a lock of Alexander Hamilton's hair and Harry Houdini's ouija board.

Chevron maintains one “Standard” brand station per state so it doesn’t lose the trademark.

"The Donut" was built as part of an expensive, ill-fated engineering endeavor.

A detached cement mixer has been transformed to resemble a relic from some obscure NASA mission to Oklahoma.

A wacky, UFO-shaped house in a suburban neighborhood.

If you dial the number in this abandoned office window "Sam Spade’s" secretary will ask you to leave a message.

This abandoned oil depot produces world's longest echo in a manmade structure.

All that remains of a gigantic earth-moving machine.

This beautiful site is where the first transatlantic telegraph was sent from.

The colorful, smiling concrete silos of Vancouver.

Impressive sink holes fill this untouched old-growth forest in the Bahamas.

A school-themed restaurant where gastronomy is the core curriculum.

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

Potential high level nuclear waste storage site for the next 10,000 years and beyond.

Large tower used for simulating radiation of Hiroshima bomb and the tallest object ever relocated.

The contents of this safe survived a 37-kiloton nuclear bomb.

A preserved Nazi labor camp now has a Holocaust museum on site and memorials to the thousands that died while imprisoned at the camp.

Abraham Lincoln's vice president took his last breath here on July 4, 1891.

A mistaken marker makes an erroneous claim along the historic Old Divide Road.

A monument to the center of the North American continent may be off by a few miles.