San Antonio, Texas
Mission San Jose
Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
San Antonio, Texas
Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.
Sturgeon, Missouri
A geological oddity formed by two rivers carving out a mass of limestone on both sides.
Lucas, Kansas
Self-built house and sculpture park where the creator can still be seen in a glass coffin.
Washington, D.C.
It was once the base for a series of domestic terror attacks.
Lexington, Virginia
The oddly shaped, steam-spewing building is now an art studio and gallery.
Tucson, Arizona
In Tucson a giant metal snake helps pedestrians cross a busy highway.
Port Orange, Florida
Where serial killer Aileen Wuornos drank her last beer.
San Francisco, California
A famous alternative culture epicenter and where Joplin serenaded young hippies.
Centralia, Pennsylvania
A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.
New York, New York
A posh members-only club with a literally dramatic history.
Culver City, California
Home to secret Eastern Bloc spy equipment and the largest stretch of the original Berlin Wall outside of Germany.
Mount Angel, Oregon
World's largest porcine hairball sits in a collection maintained by Benedictine monks.
New Orleans, Louisiana
The state's oldest continuously operating museum houses more than 5,000 Civil War artifacts.
Amarillo, Texas
A pair of giant legs paying homage to a poem, a king, and it would seem, socks.
Castle Shannon, Pennsylvania
The pop art icon's gravesite is broadcast 24 hours a day on his museum's website.
Coalinga, California
A dwindling menagerie of anthropomorphic oil derrick animals still dot the barren California landscape.
Seattle, Washington
Seasonal, Pacific Northwest cuisine served in a 101 year old firehouse.
Chimayo, New Mexico
This popular pilgrimage site offers a hole filled with holy healing dirt.
Brooklyn, New York
A massive forgotten storehouse from 1913 on the Brooklyn Waterfront has a spectacular view of Brooklyn.
McCloud, California
This lesser known Hearst estate is a fairytale village built from the stolen bones of historic European buildings.
Estero, Florida
Former utopian colony based on the belief that the universe exists in a hollow sphere.
Petersburg, Kentucky
A 70,000-square-foot institution dedicated to a very literal, creationist perspective on the Book of Genesis.
New Canaan, Connecticut
Home of Philip Johnson, one of the 20th century's most influential architects.
Ashmore, Illinois
This grave in a ghost town cemetery marks the death of a witch on a day that never happened.