Alamo, Nevada
The Black Mailbox
Mysterious meeting place for UFO hunters near Area 51.
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Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Camac Street
The last of Philadelphia's wood-paved streets is now a landmark of terrible engineering.
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New York, New York
City Hall Library
An accidentally hidden library containing the ephemeral history of New York.
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New Orleans, Louisiana
The Rosegate House
A typical "Old South" manor, once owned by author Anne Rice, served as the setting for several of her witchcraft sagas.
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Orlando, Florida
"Singing Runway" at the Abandoned Disney World Airport
The only runway directly into the magic kingdom has been closed since 1972, but it still sings to you if you drive fast enough.
Washington, Pennsylvania
LeMoyne Crematory
Francis Julius LeMoyne built this crematory in 1876; he was the third person to be cremated here.
Columbia, Missouri
Blind Boone House
The modest, restored home of the legendary ragtime musician John William "Blind" Boone.
Sterling, Virginia
Dulles Airport Mobile Lounges
These unusual rooms on wheels are holdovers from the 1960s.
Halethorpe, Maryland
Maryland's 3rd Congressional District
A winding district gerrymandered into the shape of a mantis.
Falmouth, Massachusetts
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi’s Grave
Final resting place of a pioneering scurvy researcher.
Falmouth, Massachusetts
The Garden of Our Lady
Marigolds, rosemary, Madonna lilies, and the Virgin’s Bower decorate this Massachusetts sacred garden.
Brooklyn, New York
Red Hook Houses
One of the largest public housing complexes in New York once visited by Eleanor Roosevelt.
Newport, Rhode Island
Arthur Ashe's Tennis Racket
The tennis legend used this racket while breaking the race barrier and becoming the first Black man to win the US Open.
Eagle River, Wisconsin
World Snowmobile Headquarters
A one-stop shop for all things snowmobile, started by a snowmobile-obsessed group of friends in Wisconsin.
Phoenicia, New York
The Anglers Parlor, aka The Jerry Bartlett Memorial Angling Collection
On the second floor of a small town library is an homage to angling and memorial to a great local fisherman.
Lansing, Michigan
Lansing's Rotary Steam Clock
This mechanical wonder towers above a river in Michigan's capital city.
Brooklyn, New York
P.S. 15, Patrick F. Daly School
School named after its beloved principal, killed in the cross-fire of a drug related shooting.
Arlington, Virginia
VIP Congressional Parking Lot at Reagan National Airport
Right next to departures—how convenient!
West Lafayette, Indiana
The Smoking Fence
Purdue students would lean over this iron fence to skirt campus rules against smoking and courting.
Somerset, Ohio
Old Perry County Courthouse
The nearly 200-year-old building displays a perplexing grammatical error.
Hartford, Connecticut
Charter Oak Frame
A portrait of the Charter Oak hangs in a frame made from the Charter Oak.
Windsor, Ohio
Servants of Mary Center for Peace
The world's largest Our Lady of Guadalupe statue overlooks this Ohio sanctuary.
Mitchell, Indiana
Virgil I. Gus Grissom Rocket Monument
This memorial to the Mercury Seven astronaut stands at the site of his former elementary school.
Florence, Wisconsin
Badwater Ski-Ters
A surprisingly large number of show waterski teams are located here in Wisconsin.
