Places headhunt Wants to Go

Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.

A bunker "with enough U.S. currency to replenish the cash supply east of the Mississippi" in the event of nuclear war now protects nitrate film.

After hundreds of years of settlement, this once-bustling fishing village sunk into the Chesapeake Bay.

This scenic Maryland park was the site of one of the worst prison camps of the Civil War.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

The only remnant of a small mining town is an abandoned railroad tunnel that is steeped in ghostly lore.

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

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

Inspired by a foil-wrapped potato, (seriously) the Markel Building has been deemed one of the 10 ugliest buildings in the world.

A railroad tunnel that, upon its completion, was considered one of the engineering marvels of the modern world.

On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

The highest point in Texas is capped by a big silver pyramid.

Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

Minimalist modern art on a repurposed military base in rural Texas.

Natural catch-basin rocks covered in thousands of drawings spanning many millennia.

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

A private collection of massive steel monsters guarding a Texas pipe works.

Local arts organization founded in a former church.

Beer lover's can-covered house.

The Nobel-Prize-winning author of The Stranger is buried beneath a simple gravestone in a sleepy French village.

An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

A tunnel once abandoned now thrives with graffiti art as an off-limits makeshift gallery.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.