Places From the Backwoods Wants to Go

An abandoned car and strange wooden debris are among the scattered remains of the old sand and gravel quarry.

The headquarters of a secretive order is also a beautifully-designed park.

The largest permanent Monopoly board makes one of the longest games even bigger.

Neoclassical Revival mansion and set of horror cult classic Phantasm.

A life-sized mammoth sculpture marks the spot where the remains of a Columbian mammoth were discovered in 2005.

From the sky, a kaleidoscope of color brightens the grey landscape of the San Francisco Bay.

An expansive and intricately restored mansion remains from over a century ago--and so do its ghosts.

Neither Spanish settlers nor anyone since has been able to tell who built these strange California rock walls.

The old Niles Canyon Aqueduct in the San Francisco Bay Area is a bemusing and secret trail through nature for wayward travelers.

Cows on a ranch are commonplace, scattered cow bones everywhere? Not so much.

A Roman-inspired temple once controlled half of San Francisco's waters.

A ruined hotel with an unlucky history and an eerie present.

This historic folk art garden contains a nightmare tower that claims to be the world's largest concrete totem pole.

A detached cement mixer has been transformed to resemble a relic from some obscure NASA mission to Oklahoma.

A whimsical tower with a spiral staircase, inspired by the Space Age and the Möbius strip.

This spectacular public market has got meat, fish, vegetables, baked goods, and enough kielbasa for a lifetime.

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.

On a wall in Cleveland, Ohio find the story of a highly connected fictional community of organisms that created remarkable, lasting structures.

Town full of spiritualists, some of whom are mediums, is still in full swing after 130 years.

This retired stagecoach tavern is the oldest building in Cleveland.

The ruins of the suspension bridge hang over Kingsbury Run as a ghost of racial prejudice.

Medical history museum featuring a lovely doctor's office from the 1800s.

The heroic sled dog of the 1925 serum run is preserved in taxidermy.