Places David Plotz Wants to Go

The industrial monstrosity known as Bagger 258 is a colossal mining machine built in the DDR - but now left for dead in a German field.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

This Georgian architectural masterpiece is the only cloth hall left in Britain.

Lombardy poplars planted to imitate the size and shape of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Reims.

The sunken structure looks like the victim of a catastrophic flood.

A vibrant street away from the typical tourist track, lined with colorful, mosaic-covered houses.

A spoke-tacular artwork constructed from recycled bicycle rims.

FDR's Art Deco hospital tower was hopelessly inefficient.

Located just behind a quiet residential neighborhood, this is ground zero for the Salem witchcraft hysteria of 1692.

The enormous earthwork sculpture honors the ponies that lived and worked in the old colliery.

One of the largest and oldest caravansaries in Persia.

Legend has it the mill owner's daughter, Mary Musgrove, helped a Patriot soldier hide behind these falls.

A historic blockhouse and trading post give a glimpse into the early colonial history of South Carolina.

Every autumn, this hillside is ablaze with red summer cypress.

This 5-by-6-foot wooden hut is the smallest historic post office in the U.S.

This Asheville chair museum wants to revive a dying art.

This rare basilica nestled right in downtown Asheville is an architectural marvel, inside and out.

A massive work of modern art that appears to be a crop circle in the middle of the desert.

The fine fabric handwoven at Biltmore Industries was once coveted around the world.

Edison's cast-in-place concrete houses were a failure, but way ahead of their time.

Beneath the mossy overgrowth covering this once-sprawling campus lies decades of history and the secrets that come with it.

Where the four original members of the Ramones hung out and revolutionized punk rock.

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

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