Places Deano Wants to Go

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

Long-abandoned trolley tunnels just a mile away from the White House are turning into an art space.

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

A breathtaking array of ancient Pueblo structures and artifacts counterintuitively preserved by neglect.

Hollowed out cedar log tubs set in an ancient towering forest.

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

A dilapidated dock tells the story of Titanic’s missed arrival.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

Home of an evil witch famous within southern folklore.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.