Places Gary Saum Wants to Go

A physical catalog of ceramics made by the now-defunct Celadon Terra Cotta company.

Bronze statue marks the spinach capital of the world.

The final remnant of the Arkansas zinc industry is this historically protected ghost town.

An abandoned early-20th-century boomtown sits within the Calico Rock city limits.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

This tombstone marks the final resting place of the beloved 1990's character, Ernest P. Worrell.

In 1952, a strange encounter in the woods of West Virginia led to the legend of a 10-foot-tall monster with glowing eyes and a distinctive style.

This abandoned train tunnel has been the subject of countless ghost stories for years.

This elaborate hole in the ground was built as a sacred site for an ancient civilization.

A lake formed in the basin of a massive impact crater takes the shape of an unbroken ring when viewed from above.

The largest collection of Frazetta originals in the world.

This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.

Reclaimed by nature, the ruins of Doodletown, New York are remnants of a town consumed by a state park.

The site of a tragic massacre that spawned a multimedia franchise.

This backwater graveyard in the Hamptons became a trendy burial spot and posthumous status symbol for famous artists.

Once the center of food production for this small town.

A fire station-turned-church-turned-museum dedicated to the work of seminal light artist Dan Flavin.

This 19th-century Hamptons windmill was once home to modernist painter Agnes Pelton.

Etchings in a pile of boulders on the Long Island Sound are a monument to vanquished native peoples.

A former poultry store that looks like a giant duck and is one of the "seven wonders" of Long Island.

A restored Shell gas station from 1937 that includes a tow truck, the original gas pumps, and the original office.

An unrealized dream to wirelessly electrify the entire Earth.

This roadside attraction looks like a flying saucer parked atop the tundra.

A giant concrete orb in far north Iceland marks the ever-shifting boundary.