Places khurtwilliams Wants to Go

Looking like nothing more than a cartoon deserted island, this tiny sandbar is home only to a single umbrella.

Starting with nothing more than discarded conch shells, one man has built an island/bar that would make Jimmy Buffet jealous.

A humble homemade ride attracts visitors from around the globe to this small Midwestern town.

A surprising museum of 20th-century technology.

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

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

Local lore claims this park is named after a young woman who jumped off a cliff.

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

Mysterious rocks that ring musically when struck.

This tiny New Jersey village has lived many lives but seems determined to remain a ghost town.

A historic grist mill and active sluice on the Black River.

One of the world's largest model railroads is a mind-boggling achievement.

A bronze monument to the infamous radio broadcast in the real New Jersey town where the fictional Martians crash-landed.