Places jerrycrash Wants to Go

Now abandoned, this East Austin school for the disabled began as the "State Colony for the Feeble-minded."

This one-block alleyway is stuffed with street art that is colorful, cultural, and intensely political.

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

Known to backpackers as the "Steps of Doom," this walkway carved into the side of a seaside cliff leads to the Roman Tombs.

A unique local art exhibit that has continued to grow since 1989.

A popular winter vacation destination for migrating monarch butterflies.

Colorful Native American paintings are hidden within this small cavern.

This stunning sea creature-shaped home blends into the landscape like a fantasy villa.

The world's oldest soul food restaurant is also one of its best.

Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.

A trading post in the North Pole where children send letters.

This WWII-era military installation once held an entire city within its walls - now, its walls are falling down.

The ruins of a town wiped out by the second-largest earthquake in recorded history.

Running under an entire mountain, the longest highway tunnel in North America is kept fresh using portal fans and jet fans.

This graveyard contains markers and monuments dedicated to some of the darkest chapters in Washington's history.

This frozen tunnel in central Alaska is both an engineering feat and a valuable climate classroom.

The "Gateway to the Arctic" connects Barrow's indigenous population with the sea and its traditional industry: whaling.

This mysterious and creepy location instills a strong sense of foreboding in all visitors.

A mountain range on an active U.S. Navy base hides thousands of mysterious prehistoric rock carvings.

The location of the last stand of Charles Manson's doomsday cult.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.