Places limikoleit Wants to Go

The city is full of whimsical portals to another world.

The "last unrestored grand mansion of Savannah" is now a cramped, mouldering maze of antiques.

Deep under Manhattan is the largest construction project in city history. So far, the project has taken the lives of 23 workers, or "a man a mile."

"Only the devil could play golf here."

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

Earth's tallest volcano is sacred to Native Hawaiians, and home to a dozen world-class observatories.

The Mysterious Witch Bonney, a haunted statue in an old industrial city.

This set of rickety spaceships are prepared to give alien travelers a place to relax and go to the bathroom.

This lush forest valley was once mined for lumber to the extent that it was once nicknamed "The Pennsylvania Desert."

The future of roadside attractions is this sci-fi soda mecca that is home to a 66-foot tall neon pop bottle.

The largest arcade museum in the world chronicles the golden age of video games which ended promptly in 1987.

An architecturally-focused antique shop.

This 150 foot seven-tiered cascading waterfall is one of the hidden gems of the White Mountains.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

This collection of grinning ephemera has grown from basement to Brooklyn.

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

A collection of fading fantasy tchotchkes lines this dirt road in the Colorado wilderness.

A sliver of nostalgia in Seattle's Viretta Park.

Naturally formed white marble arch housed in an abandoned marble quarry from the 1800s.

Erosion and time have created a naturally-formed water park.

This abandoned dream castle and its cemetery look out over the city that once inspired their creation.

The haunted reputation of these abandoned Colorado train tunnels is probably not helped by the terrifying spiked fence.

The ruins of this Thomas-Jefferson-designed mansion have been left to crumble since the Christmas Day they burnt down.