Places G Pike Wants to Go

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

A dilapidated dock tells the story of Titanic’s missed arrival.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

The "Seinfeld" diner.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

The Corinthian columns that towered over Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration stand proud.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House on Haunted Hill" to a robot hunter's pad.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.

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

Home of an evil witch famous within southern folklore.

The one-stop shop for all of your superhero (or evil arch-nemesis) needs.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.