Places James Ricci Wants to Go

A mysterious drive-in nestled in the forest that leaves little to the imagination.

Decaying military base deactivated in the 70s is now visited by urban explorers and military enthusiasts.

The end of times arrives, at least for the fish in the O.C. Fisher Reservoir.

Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.

This small town Texas cemetery is said to be the burial site of a UFO pilot who crashed in the 1800s.

Crumbling hotel echoes with the sounds of the '30s.

It specializes in outsider art and artifacts of secret societies.

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.

Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.

This sacred cavern, 400 feet deep, is home to millions of bats and an ancient burial ground.

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

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

A Texas-sized particle collider that was abandoned due to its Texas-sized budget.

Abraham Lincoln's likeness rests at the top of this giant totem pole.

This cemetery is all that remains of a school for "wayward" girls.

This simple gravestone remembers a pig who single-hoofedly raised $19,000,000 for the Navy.

This abstract sculpture is rumored to cast a hammer-and-sickle shadow once a year.

This small-town park in southern Illinois has a 1,000,000-gallon swimming pool and a 100,000-barrel oil well.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

An Art Deco gem that held together the artistic heart of an agricultural community for 92 years.

G.V. Black, the Father of Modern Dentistry, keeps an eternal eye on Chicagoan’s teeth from his perch in Lincoln Park.

Known as the "Cross At The Crossroads," this massive metal cross is just short enough to avoid the FAA.