Places kkthemook Wants to Go

A remote horde of architectural treasures fit for Indiana Jones.

The pop art icon's gravesite is broadcast 24 hours a day on his museum's website.

Priceless space junk on display in front of a local Dairy Queen.

The fastest transatlantic ocean liner sat abandoned in a Philadelphia shipyard for decades.

Contrary to what one might expect, ice forms inside this small cavern during the summer and melts during the winter.

One of the oldest log cabins in America is one of the last of its kind this historic Swedish dwelling remains a piece of living history.

This park contains a number of standing stones meant to heal and inspire.

These disused steel furnaces are now haunting ruins that may one day be a national park.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

A failed piece of Orientalism has become the proud symbol of a community.

This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.

When the Austin Dam failed it destroyed much of Austin...and then it failed again.

Over 100 concrete munitions bunkers are all that remain of a Pennsylvanian village seized by the US government.

This church in Pittsburgh is home to the largest collection of religious relics in North America.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

"Dark Sky Park" is heaven on Earth for astronomers, one of the rare U.S. locations with no artificial light pollution.

Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and one of the largest glass murals in the US.

Where America’s first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.

The stone marker that Mason and Dixon placed at the eastern end of the famous north-south border they surveyed.

Rediscovered after a century, the father of the American Navy was reinterred in something dredged up from Davy Jones’ locker.

Fascinating museum dedicated to the under-appreciated medical history of urology features some wince-inducing devices.

After hundreds of years of settlement, this once-bustling fishing village sunk into the Chesapeake Bay.

This abandoned sea fort has become an accidental bird sanctuary.

A bas relief commemorates the "Nuns of the Battlefield" who cared for soldiers on both sides of the conflict.