Places engelhardus Wants to Go

Preserving the remains of Native American cultures which otherwise would have been submerged behind Hoover Dam.

This folk art compound was built by a fortune teller on the advice of three people from the future.

An architect's childhood fantasy treehouse made real.

The haunted reputation of these abandoned Colorado train tunnels is probably not helped by the terrifying spiked fence.

A nature and cultural preserve named for its multitude of petroglyphs carved by the Northern Sinagua people.

Despite being burnt down multiple times, the ruins of this South Carolina church are still standing.

Live long and prosper in Tennessee.

The hotel room where Janis Joplin tragically died has now become a makeshift shrine to the singer.

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

This set of rickety spaceships are prepared to give alien travelers a place to relax and go to the bathroom.

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

A curious whirlpool formation supposedly capable of entangling or engulfing branches, tree trunks, or whole rafts full of hapless tourists.

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

An eclectic trailer park retreat in the middle of the California desert.

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

According to local lore, this narrow passageway through two large rocks was accidentally created by the devil himself.

Limestone caves with spectacular showcase chambers.

A failed utopian experiment for British expats in the American South is now a Victorian village frozen in time.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

This North Carolina museum is keeping the pinball craze alive, with a little Space Invaders on the side.

A sculpture for the sun and stars, created by Nancy Holt.

The story of Two Guns, Arizona could easily be described as a Shakespearian tragedy on Route 66.

A mysterious light floating in the trees of Arkansas may be a piezoelectric effect.

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.