Places iellwen Wants to Go

Frank Lloyd Wright built this suburban synagogue late in life, but it stands among his most iconic masterpieces.

Step into a pastel time capsule where candy is truly dandy.

Smack in the midst of coal country, this collection provides a peoples' history of Appalachian miners' heritage.

An eight-sided home built during a brief octagon craze in the 1850s.

Lines from a walking song are etched into a rock in Natural Bridge State Park.

The largest earthwork effigy in the world.

A museum entirely dedicated to the evolution of mining lamps.

In the bowels of a 19th-century brewery lurks a fine-dining restaurant offering an array of themed feasts.

This decommissioned nuclear power plant offers tours of its Communist-era control room and reactor hall.

The site of the gruesome massacre—and maybe cannibalism—of five men, a tragedy that made Alferd Packer infamous.

A natural tidal swimming pool is ringed by bizarrely artistic lava rock formations.

The U.S. government built the million-pound stack of steel during the Space Race.

This suburban house is made of dirt, and almost sparked a revolution in home construction.

This tiny cottage surrounded by railroads is the oldest surviving structure in Fairmount Park.

Proto-CIA agents trained with grenades in the sand traps and fired machine guns from the fairways.

You can row a boat through this ancient underground reservoir.

A neighborhood park in the city of Cáceres hides what some believe are revolutionary examples of Neanderthal cave art.

This lovely little burbling creek is actually a deadly waterway that has dragged down everyone who ever set foot in it.

Eat like pre-Columbian Native Americans in this New Mexico restaurant within the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center.

This grave marks the passing of a historic Jane Doe whose identity remains a mystery to this day.

Folklore says this medieval fortress was plopped atop a portal to hell to trap the demons below.

An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

The scant remains of this flooded historic village can be explored in one of the most remote areas of the Great Smokies.

This New England covered bridge is home to the tale of a jilted lover known to haunt the area.