Places drwolff Wants to Go

This small and serene place for quiet reflection on Staten Island was built in China based on the gardens of the Ming Dynasty.

This haunting monument honors the victims of 9/11.

World Trade Center memorial likened to a woman's sexual organ.

Faces carved into the cliffs create an otherworldly walking trail.

Beside a busy highway, a colony of Great Blue Herons raises hundreds of offspring each year.

A history of tragedy and a pile of eerie stories have contributed to this house's consistent ranking as one of the most haunted places in Ohio.

The only depiction of Abraham Lincoln holding a weapon, and the names of all 9,000 Cuyahoga veterans of the Civil War.

Funded by John D. Rockefeller, this is one of the earliest, and most beautiful, shopping arcades in America.

Marvel at this turn-of-the-century masterpiece that has been turned into a rather stately supermarket.

An unoccupied lighthouse encased in layers of ice from the waters of Lake Erie.

This retired stagecoach tavern is the oldest building in Cleveland.

This Rodin sculpture in Cleveland bears the lasting marks of a 1970 bombing.

This lovely university observatory continues to sit abandoned since its potential savior was sent to jail for fraud.

A fake mine that was made using real mining techniques which is also used as a community center.

This eclectic Austin curiosity shop is home to all things strange and unusual.

JFK's assassin rented a room in the boarding house in the weeks leading up to the 1963 shooting.

The final resting place of infamous outlaw Clyde and Marvin Barrow.

A peaceful place in the woods where everything is a work in progress.

This knick-knack-covered house (complete with a matching van) is a charming oddity in the middle of a modest downtown neighborhood.

A Victorian-style home known as the “Castle on the Hill.”

$10,000 won in a poker game in 1884 allowed James Draughon to build this intriguing home.

The only brothel on the National Register of Historic Places.

A beautifully restored 19th-century house that’s possibly haunted.

The highest point in Oklahoma used to be a lawless outlaw's paradise.