Lake Delton, Wisconsin
Lost Canyon
This steep-walled ravine contains animal-shaped formations made from sandstone.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Lake Delton, Wisconsin
This steep-walled ravine contains animal-shaped formations made from sandstone.
Kasekera, Tanzania
Only reachable by boat, a small Tanzanian national park is home to the chimpanzees that Jane Goodall spent her career studying.
Berkeley Springs, West Virginia
Berkeley Springs State Park boasts the nation's only monument commemorating presidential bathing.
Amboy, California
A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.
Amboy, California
The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.
Quemado, New Mexico
In the remote high desert of New Mexico, a strange array of poles beckon fury from above.
Joshua Tree, California
While exploring the desert, you can stop by the home of a fictional heretic from a parallel universe.
St. Augustine, Florida
In this case, 'zero' marks the spot where the iconic Old Spanish Trail ends.
North Pontianak, Indonesia
This monument marks where the exact middle of the world used to be.
Athens, Wisconsin
The center of the only hemisphere that awards visitors with a commemorative coin.
Tanygrisiau, Wales
For the deepest sleep of your life, head 1,375 feet underground in Wales.
Las Vegas, Nevada
These markers are used to determine the ground stability of the Strip.
San Bernardino County, California
In the middle of the desert, miles from any human life, sat an anomalous pay phone that still magically answers your calls.
Henderson, Nevada
Originally built as a promotional giveaway, this suburban house was designed to be an IRL version of the Simpson home.
New York, New York
A clock set into the concrete outside a Manhattan jeweler has been telling time underfoot for over a century.
New York, New York
The façade of this building looks like a bingo board, but it's really a giant clock by a famed graphic designer.
New York, New York
During the 19th century, you could pay for violence off a prix fixe menu on this Manhattan street.
New York, New York
This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.
New York, New York
A commemorative plaque hides a door that leads down to the New York Public Library's underground book bunker.
New York, New York
There are owls with glowing eyes in Herald Square.
Newberry Springs, California
The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.
New York, New York
A crumbling staircase in upper Manhattan is all that remains of one of the most important sites in sports history.
New York, New York
Depression-era fun lives on in this Harlem museum dedicated to the sport of the street.
Queens, New York
A remnant from the golden age of aviation still in use today, Pan Am's Clipper service took off from this Art Deco gem.