Places empace Wants to Go

An old pay phone rewired to play local bird calls and songs at the press of a button.

This propitious plastic porcine has been petitioning park visitors to pick up after themselves for more than 50 years.

This Asian-inspired tower in a lush urban park provides spectacular panoramic views of Baltimore.

Explore the legends surrounding these mythical sea creatures inside this museum.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

A local farm's collection of unusual structures from a now defunct storybook amusement park.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

It’s not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music’s library has been described as a “cathedral of books.”

The word "Watergate" will forever be associated with the infamous scandal in 1972, but this fountain is famous in its own right.

In a pedestrian tunnel on North Carolina State’s campus resides an expressive and artistic free-for-all.

A former Oz-themed attraction that has fallen into disrepair, but still holds some of the original magic.

Abandoned Coast Artillery fort now serves as a graffiti canvas and sightseeing vantage point.

The hidden jewel of Disneyland: a members only playground for the Disney elite.

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

A free, public museum dedicated to the fascinating science of sight.

A Mysterious Masonic tomb in San Luis Obispo.

This stockpile of junked electronic and mechanical gadgets is a favorite among Hollywood prop masters.

San Francisco's most expensive hotel suite includes a secret passageway rumored to have been used by JFK.

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.

The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.

A popular tourist cave with a dark past.

Home to the "Circus" trees created by Axel Erlandson.