Places jen487 Wants to Go

"Dark Sky Park" is heaven on Earth for astronomers, one of the rare U.S. locations with no artificial light pollution.

Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.

Frank Lloyd Wright’s most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.

Where America’s first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

Mysterious rocks that ring musically when struck.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

The bottle house obsession struck a Florida man in his retirement, and now he can't stop building.

The story of a Floridian city as told through an obscure sport for retirees.

World's largest magnetic research facility.

This phone booth-sized municipal building has been a piece of police property for more than half a century.

The museum chronicling a treasure hunter's dream, fulfilled.

This state park was once an important Native American cermonial center.

Ancient church constructed with a special wood that preserves prints from the past.

A graveyard of bathyspheres and diving bells paints a weirdly accurate account of ocean exploration's rickety history.

A historic presidential getaway on the continental United States' southernmost island.

Hundreds of skulls and bones at the largest skeleton museum in the country.

Former wax museum from the 1960s, home to many wax U.S. Presidents and the famous White House miniature.

This funky outdoor gallery in Florida is filled with whimsical recycled art installations.

Off of the Crawfordville Highway in Florida, nature is taking back this decrepit row of Ford trucks.

One man's grief over the national tragedy has manifested in a pod of homemade whales on his front lawn.