San Francisco, California
The Old Ship Saloon
A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
San Francisco, California
A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.
Las Vegas, Nevada
A new kind of theme park for adults off the Las Vegas Strip.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
These curious caverns have been home to mushrooms, gangsters, and disco.
Petersburg, Kentucky
A ship that lived many lives under many names is now known merely as the "Ghost Ship."
Aspen, Colorado
An architect in Aspen used psychedelics as his muse while building this mushroom masterpiece.
San Francisco, California
This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.
Lumpkin, Georgia
Bad farming practices caused this unnatural natural wonder.
Monroe, Utah
One man has installed bathtubs into the Utah desert floor to harness the powers of a natural hot spring.
Waco, Texas
Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.
Washington, D.C.
A lovely aquatic park built by a one-armed Civil War veteran who made a fortune from lotuses.
Milledgeville, Georgia
One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.
Salt Lake City, Utah
The location along the shores of the Great Salt Lake of what was once called, "The Coney Island of the West", now sits barren due to arson and time.
Indianapolis, Indiana
Once adorning a New York skyscraper, these reclaimed ruins now haunt an Indiana park.
Anaheim, California
The hidden jewel of Disneyland: a members only playground for the Disney elite.
New York, New York
A quiet and contemplative oasis in the middle of New York's bustle and riot.
Quakertown, Pennsylvania
The headquarters of the Fraternitas Rosae Crucis, complete with Rosicrucian pyramids, all in the Pennsylvania woods.
Johannesburg, California
The liveliest ghost town in the state.
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
A park full of outsider art, created by college students studying outsider art.
La Pointe, Wisconsin
These Great Lakes sea caves accessible by boat in the summer turn into temples of ice reachable by foot in the winter.
Cleveland, Ohio
An unoccupied lighthouse encased in layers of ice from the waters of Lake Erie.
Kernersville, North Carolina
Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.
Seattle, Washington
This popular bar has been blurring the line between normal and edgy for more than 75 years.
Washington, D.C.
A derelict bit of transportation infrastructure hidden in the woods.
Harmony, Minnesota
This large midwestern cavern features impressive rock formations and an underground waterfall.