Places Calmmseas Wants to Go

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

Miners in Michigan developed a taste for Cornish beef pasties, which this roadside stand has been selling since 1947.

This freshwater spring fills with 10,000 gallons of water per minute.