Places genangela Wants to Go

A glittering Thai Buddhist temple in suburban Pennsylvania.

One of the U.S. Forest Service's only mansions is outfitted with a dinner table for floating food.

This jail which was in service for over a century is now open for curious visitors.

A larger-than-life statue of America's favorite sundae marks the place it was invented.

Once on display alongside a giant Gumby, it’s as tall as a nine-story building when fully extended.

A local prank turned town icon.

This icon of the Atomic Age now lays dormant.

A historic covered bridge is but one example of an oddly prevalent American urban legend.

An outlandish shoe shaped house built by an eccentric millionaire.

This titanic java kettle is one of the many kitschy landmarks located along America's OTHER famous highway.

A failed piece of Orientalism has become the proud symbol of a community.

A modern ghost town whose inhabitants were driven away by the growth of nuclear power.

Delicate Wurlitzers, creepy clowns, and The Noid all share space in this insane explosion of kitsch history.

The oldest surviving botanic garden in the United States.

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

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

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

These beautiful ruins deep in the Pennsylvania woods are thought to have been a ski lodge or a speakeasy, but no one really knows.

A stone arch leads to a cavernous 1930s spring house tucked away in the Pennsylvania woods.

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

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

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

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

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