Places greasekitten Wants to Go

A Texas-sized particle collider that was abandoned due to its Texas-sized budget.

It specializes in outsider art and artifacts of secret societies.

"Dallas’s pretty much only carnivorous plant gallery."

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

Historic Hull Street was actually the first street with a proper name in the Boston area.

The headquarters of one of the world’s longest-running humor magazines bears a noticeable resemblance to a head wearing a Prussian helmet.

Rising 30 feet in the air atop Quarry Hill, the Old Powder House is the oldest stone building in the state of Massachusetts.

Remnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mall.

The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.

This propitious plastic porcine has been petitioning park visitors to pick up after themselves for more than 50 years.

One of the oldest active carousels in the country—but it might be missed by all but the keenest-eyed boardwalk strollers.

This lovely tree was a thank you gift from the man known as "Public Enemy No.1."

Tiny observatory made big contributions to the study of the Earth's motion.

This ruined quarry once produced the distinctive red sandstone used for construction projects in Washington, D.C.

A lawn full of retired spacecraft on display at one of NASA's first research labs.

A monumental statue of RCA's mascot now sits atop a historical society roof after a life of moving around.

The final resting place of the tragic king and queen of the Jazz Age is tucked away in a small Maryland graveyard.

The shelves in the back of this thrift store are devoted to saving, not selling, retro tech.

A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.

An intricately designed junk art house with four extravagant junk art cars hidden in the suburbs.

A local farm's collection of unusual structures from a now defunct storybook amusement park.

Bizarre Cavern.

This beloved Baltimore spot features caged dolls, a giant Pez collection, and many, many mannequins.

FDR's Art Deco hospital tower was hopelessly inefficient.