San Francisco, California
Internet Archive Headquarters
The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
San Francisco, California
The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.
Zhengzhou, China
A magical work of architecture where a wind turbine enables monks to levitate.
Meagher, Montana
Mining town from the late 1890s, once home to Calamity Jane.
Fort Benton, Montana
A small Montana town commemorates the dog who waited at the train station every day for his owner to return.
London, England
A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.
Port Orchard, Washington
A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.
Cave City, Kentucky
An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.
Mount Waddington A, British Columbia
An island said to shake with the current.
Maple Ridge, British Columbia
A floating McDonald's built for Expo '86 is now a derelict relic on Burrard Inlet.
Victoria, British Columbia
The narrowest street in Canada was once a spot for dastardly doings, now a historic piece of Chinatown.
Vancouver, British Columbia
A renegade art installation in a small Vancouver park is now officially sanctioned by the City Parks Department.
Port Renfrew, British Columbia
Defying all odds, this lonely little tree found a home on a log sticking out of a Canadian lake.
Vancouver, British Columbia
This Elizabethan hedge maze is one of only six in North America.
Hope, British Columbia
Railways may have forged this quintet of lovely tunnels, but now they are open to hikers.
Coquitlam, British Columbia
Historic psychiatric asylum and most-filmed location in the Great White North.
Malakwa, British Columbia
An old world fairytale-land with over 350 fairy folk figurines hidden amongst 800 year old cedars.
New York, New York
Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.
New York, New York
A WWI fighter plane and turn-of-the-century penny candy shop are among the unexpected features of this Financial District building.
New York, New York
A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."
New York, New York
An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.
New York, New York
The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?
Salem, Massachusetts
Experience the hysteria of a 17th century witch hunt through goofy reenactments and wax dummies that should probably be burned at the stake.
Danvers, Massachusetts
The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.
Lynn, Massachusetts
A cave dug by a man directed by ghosts to find pirate treasure.