Brooklyn, New York
Coney Art Walls
This outdoor gallery of graffiti-covered walls pays homage to the past, present, and possible future of street art.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Brooklyn, New York
This outdoor gallery of graffiti-covered walls pays homage to the past, present, and possible future of street art.
Atlanta, Georgia
This small cemetery is all that remains of Atlanta's first Black communities.
Pensacola Beach, Florida
Pensacola's UFO home has withstood many hurricanes—just as the experimental 1960s design intended.
Pueblo, Colorado
A futuristic hovertrain is parked unceremoniously alongside a nondescript road.
Idaho City, Idaho
A former gold rush boomtown has managed to stay in business for over 100 ramshackle years.
Truckee, California
Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.
New Hope, Pennsylvania
This stone tower marks a lookout point over the historic Washington Crossing, and maybe some buried treasure.
Burlington, Kentucky
Rabbit Hash is a heaping slice of Americana from another era, with a very peculiar origin behind its unusual name.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
Home to the Amorphophallus titanum "Corpse Flower," which is among the largest flowers in the world and also smells powerfully of rotting flesh when in bloom.
Seattle, Washington
The historic bar where local ship captains, traders, and gold miners would come together to do business a century ago.
San Francisco, California
Over 315,000 preserved amphibians and reptiles in jars.
Petersburg, Kentucky
A 70,000-square-foot institution dedicated to a very literal, creationist perspective on the Book of Genesis.
Chicago, Illinois
The iconic Chicago sculpture hides a beautiful and easily overlooked plaque on the backside.
Kelleys Island, Ohio
These beautiful wineries were at the center of Lake Erie's "grape belt" back when the Midwest dominated American wine production.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The abandoned coal loading dock is a canvas for unsanctioned art.
Thompson, Utah
A ghost town that held steady longer than most, but finally gave up the ghost.
Queens, New York
A once crucial portion of the Long Island railroad still lays abandoned, waiting to be turned into an urban park.
Mansfield, Ohio
Superfans of The Shawshank Redemption can take a driving tour of most of the films real locations.
Winter Park, Colorado
These decaying bridges 1,000 feet high are a reminder of the skill it took to cross the Colorado Rockies by rail.
Dufur, Oregon
The short-lived railroad town in central Oregon has been abandoned since the 1930s.
Amado, Arizona
This giant steer-skull edifice refuses to die.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Once a speakeasy operated by Al Capone, this Milwaukee cigar bar is now a haven for ghost hunters.
Golden, Colorado
An impressive collection of over 50,000 minerals including moon rock from the Apollo 17 mission.
Cleveland, Ohio
The heroic sled dog of the 1925 serum run is preserved in taxidermy.