Places gardnermcelroy Wants to Go

Once adorning a New York skyscraper, these reclaimed ruins now haunt an Indiana park.

This retired stagecoach tavern is the oldest building in Cleveland.

This NASA test station is home to some of the world’s largest and most powerful space environment simulation facilities.

At the center of this cemetery stands a 2,000-year-old burial mound of the Adena culture.

A slab of sandstone covered with mysterious 1,000-year-old rock carvings from a vanished North American culture.

This cairn in the shape of a woman has looked over a tiny Minnesota town for well over a century.

The remains of a century-old mansion that met a fiery demise years after it was deserted.

In 1863, a woman buried her hard-drinking husband beneath his beloved booze.

Cambria's most unique B&B features creative surroundings and fantastic food.

One of only five observatories in the world built to measure the Earth's wobble.

A statue of the owner stands outside of this museum, once the most popular brothel in town.

One of few remaining antique carousels with stationary animals in the U.S.

A research lab and hands-on museum where visitors can experiment with retro technology.

The two-cell building in Nebraska was briefly owned by a teenage boy and then a Hollywood dummy.

A larger-than-life monument to the overlooked women who braved Western expansion and broke down societal barriers.

A museum documents the development of the invention that tamed the Wild West.

It's big, it's a ball, and it's made of twine—the world's largest of its kind.

A college in rural Kansas founded to prepare the country for an impending World War III.

Home to Hollywood history and a very special salt crystal.

A small island hides in plain sight on Austin's Lady Bird Lake.

An ivy-covered arch bridge dedicated to Tejano music singer and legend Rosita Fernandez.

Delightful disarray of found objects and clutter.

The site where a nuclear bomb was lowered over 8,000 feet underground and detonated as an experiment in natural gas extraction.

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.