Places donnatalarico Wants to Go

Mind-blowing carvings and fantasy ice scenes grace the largest year-round ice environment in the world.

An original apothecary from 1792.

An abandoned asylum incorporated into a college campus.

World's largest collection devoted to one fruit.

Volunteer-run library dedicated to exploring five decades of activism history.

Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.

This is one really big nut.

This beloved Baltimore spot features caged dolls, a giant Pez collection, and many, many mannequins.

Where school buses go to die and be reborn as whimsical works of art.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

The remains of one of America's first radiation testing grounds still rest ominously in a Georgia forest.

At 135 years old and counting, this historic print shop is heaven for poster nerds and music buffs.

Dozens of feral felines rule a segment of Hollywood's only graveyard.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

Where scientists keep miles of very valuable ice from Antarctica and Greenland from melting.

A small Richmond island dotted with the remnants of hundreds of years of history.

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.

Hundreds of hopeful gold miners came here to get rich, but only two years later the small town was deserted.

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

The site of a 19th century "dream city" that almost rivaled Chicago before being swallowed by the Indiana sand dunes.

The entrance to this sinisterly named tunnel hides behind a Tim Hortons.

Collection of vintage trailers double as hotel rooms.