Places HoboPal Wants to Go

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

This upscale streetwear store is hidden behind a fake Snapple machine in the back of a deli.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

Collection of vintage trailers double as hotel rooms.

This golf ball–shaped former desert real estate office now houses a UFO museum.

Miniature art that tells an enormous story.

Some of the tallest ancient American ruins continue to inspire awe and curiosity.

The largest natural travertine bridge in the world is nestled in a small canyon in central Arizona.

A working cattle ranch with remarkably well-preserved prehistoric petroglyphs and ancient ruins.

In this small Phoenix taxidermy emporium, you can find everything from a squid in a jar to a freeze-dried toad.

Limestone caves with spectacular showcase chambers.

A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.

This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.

In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.

Eons ago, a rushing lava river formed this pristine passage through solid rock.