Places Leah Dearborn Wants to Go

Exact replica of the ancient monument, but much, much lighter.

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

The final resting place of a space program monolith, soon to be unveiled again to the public.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

A small storefront museum explores the history and myth of West Virginia's famous urban legend.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

An original apothecary from 1792.

The highest point in Virginia can only be reached by passing through ponies and flowers.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

The ruins of this antebellum sugar plantation are the end result of a Seminole attack during the Florida Wars of 1836.

The location along the shores of the Great Salt Lake of what was once called, "The Coney Island of the West", now sits barren due to arson and time.

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

In Tucson a giant metal snake helps pedestrians cross a busy highway.

Row, row, row your pumpkin quickly down the stream.

A steampunk wonderland that preserves America's history of industrial innovation.

One philanthropist's extensive collection of knick-knacks and curiosities is now a public museum of oddity.

Home to the Titanic Historical Society's collection.

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

One of the now-less-hidden floral gems of the "Emerald Necklace."

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.