Places heylizk Wants to Go

This vintage train once gave new meaning to “swimming upstream.”

A historic, scenic mill that was forced to close due to overlogging.

A Byzantine-style concrete artwork pays tribute to a 17th-century saint.

This striking Victorian Home with its 113-foot turret is best known as the site where abolitionist John Brown was executed in 1859.

This refurbished gas station is one of the oldest in Texas, located on the original Route 66.

Irontown was founded in 1868, as a second attempt to mine iron from the nearby Iron Mountain.

A former pillar of the Black community in Ellicott City.

Hidden behind an empty field resides this early 19th-century cemetery.

This cabin survived a landslide that killed its owners.

How did the 110-ton limestone statue cross the road?

A glimpse into early 19th-century education.

An ode to Japanese artist Hokusai, with a bit of a comical twist.

Outside the Missouri Quilt Museum, this large spool has more than one million yards of thread—and counting.

A journey through a curious collection of oddities and wonder.

An early 20th-century jail not far from the infamous Tombstone, Arizona.

The mansion and cenotaph of the New Hampshire Faust.

Houses are tucked between, on, and underneath giant boulders.

A boulder in the Churchyard of Down Cathedral marks the legendary burial place of "The Apostle of Ireland."

If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.

Underneath the historic center of Mexico City, the remains of a temple dedicated to the Aztec god of the wind.

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

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

A small etching on the white marble parapet was written in runic script by a Viking mercenary.

Near this coastal cave stands a small memorial to the hermit who made it his home for three decades.