Places kkthemook Wants to Go

A park full of outsider art, created by college students studying outsider art.

One artist's love letter to his city and its citizens plays out across dozens of bright murals painted on the sides of decrepit buildings.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

First a root beer ad, then a golf course clubhouse, and finally a massive teapot.

Two insane asylum bodies embalmed by an amateur.

Thousands of jack o'lanterns light up Halloween at this historic West Virginia home.

The "mysteries" of this quintessential roadside oddity were almost destroyed by neglect but were saved by fans of kitschy wonder.

This church built atop a gas station promises to "equip you for the next stage in your life’s journey."

The system of air guns are fired off remotely to scare any trespassing avians.

Where pardoned turkeys once spent their all-too-brief final days.

Please don’t anchor your boat onto the Department of Defense’s underwater data cables.

The remains of a historic plantation nestled in between a parking lot and the rental car return at Reagan National Airport.

A former major munitions plant that has been converted into a sprawling art space.

This simple stone memorial remembers a secret, Geneva Convention-defying interrogation base from WWII.

This unique historical monument features large concrete spheres designed to resemble fallen stars.

Parking garage where Bob Woodward met Watergate source "Deep Throat."

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

America's second-oldest brick baseball stadium was home to a legendary WWII series that only sailors got to see.

America's first federal monument.

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.

Heron, whitewater rapids, and urban industrialism all add to the beauty of this concrete nature walk.

The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.