Places exploringwithesch Wants to Go

Collection of trolley cars in the woods represent one man's attempt to preserve transportation history.

Mutant vegetables, transgenic mosquitos, and atomic rodents span the walls of this one-of-a-kind museum.

"Dark Sky Park" is heaven on Earth for astronomers, one of the rare U.S. locations with no artificial light pollution.

One of the steepest streets in the United States makes an intriguing challenge for cyclists.

This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.

Sail through this subterranean show cave that is home to a legend that would go on to name nearly everything around it.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

Frank Lloyd Wright’s most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.

Where America’s first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.

Found art has transformed this Pittsburgh neighborhood into a psychedelic dream.

Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and one of the largest glass murals in the US.

An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

Mysterious rocks that ring musically when struck.

Hellam Township is reputed to feature seven remote gates, which when passed through in the right order, open an entrance to hell.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

Mining caused an asbestos emergency in this small town.

This record-setting hydraulic dam in the Montana badlands was one of FDR's most ambitious public works.

The famous 102-year-old circus elephant was struck and killed by lightning.

Modeled after a famous church in Vienna, Austria—but in Helena, Montana.

The shortest river in America flows for just 201 feet.

A little-visited ghost town state park offers a glimpse into Montana’s "Silver Queen."