Places joparkman Wants to Go

This park contains one of the largest concentrations of cedar glades, a unique and rare ecosystem.

Two New York rooftops are home to the largest rooftop soil farms in the world.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

The souvenir got the company’s founder out of a pretty pickle at the World’s Fair.

A decaying building marks the site associated with Emmett Till's brutal 1955 murder, which helped sparking the civil rights movement.

A giant knight, sex education, date shakes, and Jesus coexist happily in this Coachella Valley desert oasis.

The shop's owner has spent decades in the desert wearing nothing but a strategically placed sock.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

You can still ride this 100-year-old work of art in Brooklyn's largest public park.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

Mass graves and Victorian monuments mark the history of Memphis in this 19th century cemetery.

An abandoned warehouse turned art sanctuary in New Orleans.

Pink, packed sanctuary and home of the world's fullest-time Elvis fanatic.

This architectural triumph is the only Frank Lloyd Wright house in Alabama.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

Rabbit Hash is a heaping slice of Americana from another era, with a very peculiar origin behind its unusual name.

A 70,000-square-foot institution dedicated to a very literal, creationist perspective on the Book of Genesis.