Places hymeneinstein Wants to Go

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

The one-time stronghold of the noble Douglas family, now home to ghost sightings and nesting birds.

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

This home is decked out like a psychedelic explosion of colors and bowling balls.

This semi-hidden Manhattan restaurant is based out of a loading dock.

A hidden subterranean installation offers a view of the sky.

An unreal vintage shop that wears its dadaist influence on its zombie fish.

A WWI fighter plane and turn-of-the-century penny candy shop are among the unexpected features of this Financial District building.

Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.

This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.

"World's largest scrap metal sculpture" stands in an outdoor sculpture garden in the middle of Wisconsin.

Ruins of a Carnegie family mansion on Cumberland Island.

Town of spiritualists and mediums in Florida.

A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

The longest navigable underground river in the United States is home to countless blind and albino animals.

Imagine playing a version of Legends of the Hidden Temple, but with a distinctly Southern Gothic flare.

The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

Walk over a 150 year old manhole.

The Icelandic Sea Monster Museum explores the area's history of aquatic cryptid sightings.

This unauthorized stone mermaid was secretly carved out of public stone before being permanently preserved.

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.