Places dianesaurus Wants to Go

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

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

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

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

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

Templar knights fleeing persecution are said to have left this sword in stone as a landmark in 1307.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

The world's largest wooden trestle stretches across this desert canyon in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.

Hundreds of trees made from glass bottles make up this forest on Route 66.

This desert oddity hides in plain sight thanks to a cartographic error and a desert explorer with a punny sense of humor.

Each winter this underground cave forms a dazzling ice palace.

A winding, blood-red tunnel of hardened lava navigable by foot.

In the middle of the desert, miles from any human life, sat an anomalous pay phone that still magically answers your calls.

A volcanic tunnel illuminated by natural skylights offers a shaded respite from the desert sun.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

Another of California's unused Cold War missile defense complexes has become a graffiti gallery.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

The graffiti-covered remnants of a former triangulation station are balanced precariously on this California peak.

This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.

An abandoned 1920s-era stretch of cabins now overshadowed by the 66 Motel.

Once America’s most beautiful army base, this abandoned military fort on the coast of Monterey Bay has been left to the elements.