Places kerryymm Wants to Go

The maximum security facility was once thought to have "the bloodiest 47 acres in America."

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

One of the best-preserved ghost towns in Arizona speaks to the difficulties of establishing mining towns in the 19th century American West.

This work of engineering is imbued with elegance and ingeniousness.

Rainbow-hued in the summer and crystalline in the winter, this salty lake has inspired battles, temples, and plenty of awe.

A Cold War secret surveillance tower used to spy on radio communications.

An exercise in radical design and social living that became the epicenter of Soviet spy networks in London.

Captured in 1968, the Cold War spy ship is the only U.S. Navy vessel being held by a foreign government.

These cinderblock farmhouses were actually World War II radar stations in disguise.

Cold War intelligence agents monitored communist embassies from an attic in a former pigeon coop.

Germany's Glienicke Bridge has a shady history of clandestine meetings, espionage, and spycraft.

This giant sculpture made of trash is a critique of society's wastefulness.

Is this 47.7-mile stretch of highway the longest straight road in the United States?

A boat ride through utter darkness, lit only by headlamps, reveals an emerald green pool locals believe is sacred.

A vortex fountain that seems to rise out of the ground.

Public art now takes pride of place on the site of one of County Durham's last deep coal mines.

Locals affectionately dubbed this World War I memorial "Tommy."

This steel sculpture made from a recycled crane towers above a former shipyard.

A museum and gardens with unusual plants and a history of progressive programming for the blind.

The nearly 200-year-old folly has a secret spiral staircase hidden in one of its pillars.

A luxurious doomsday bunker hidden beneath an unassuming Las Vegas home offers the best of subterranean suburbia.

A living snapshot of a different time in America is preserved and maintained by a community of volunteers.

Walk through the actual strap iron cells and solitary chambers of Arizona Territory’s first prison.

Once the product of an inexplicable gold strike, this ghost town is now home to one man and his love of classic machines.