Places esftripod Wants to Go

Locals purchased this abandoned quarry in order to make sure it continues to be overgrown.

This popular Boston haunt is reminiscent of a time gone by, when slow cafes and sweet-smelling smoke wafting from patios was the norm.

The shop's owner has spent decades in the desert wearing nothing but a strategically placed sock.

This hot dog-shaped diner has moved all around Colorado, but has never been to New York.

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

This Boeing KC-97 tanker is now a restaurant for aviation lovers.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.

Hidden beneath a bridge, this waterfall is known for the large amounts of graffiti painted on its base.

Home of the International Space Hall of Fame.

The ruins of this abandoned fort now stand as a picturesque reminder of America's march West.

One New Hampshire alleyway has become home to a public gallery of feline art.

This university transit system is a 1970s vision of the future.

Come for the gun-toting hillbilly madman, stay for the ice-cream loving basketball bears.

Maybe the only missile installed in a public park, this Cold War leftover was one of the first to carry a nuclear warhead.

Along the Palisades skyline are the ruins of a large mansion built in 1911 and demolished in the 1930s.

Museum dedicated to the struggles of the disabled.

An old abandoned mining town in The Adirondacks where Theodore Roosevelt first learned of the shooting of President William McKinley.

A living antique aviation museum in the historic town of Red Hook, New York.

An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.

An abandoned Gold Coast-era mansion once intended for the exiled ruler of Albania, who never arrived.