Places lisalaneland Wants to Go

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

This museum and curiosity shop provides a glimpse into an often-overlooked past to show guests that there is beauty and wonder in the macabre.

This Cape Cod museum exhibits what it claims is the only authenticated pirate treasure in the world.

This Victorian home turned opera house may have a phantom of its own.

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

Sasqu(w)atch out!

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

An abandoned 1920s-era stretch of cabins now overshadowed by the 66 Motel.

A century-old miner's quarters turned mansion.

This golf ball–shaped former desert real estate office now houses a UFO museum.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

An artist weaves "wooden quilts" with scraps salvaged from his Katrina-damaged home in Tremé.

The oldest family-run restaurant in the United States is a living museum of New Orleans dining history.

This cemetery is home to numerous granite headstones that are works of art unto themselves.

MIT students continue the legacy of beloved professor "Doc" Edgerton through learning by doing.

A freighter full of exotic animals ends a harrowing voyage impaled on uncharted rocks in the Boston Harbor.

The remains of a hospital ravaged by fire, once a progressive place of innovations for disabled children.

Ten acres of the Kula Forest Reserve make up this wondrous state park.

A series of waterfalls and pools that flow through the 'Ohe'o Gulch and into the ocean.

The birth home of one of cinema's legendary actresses.

This hotel has hardly changed in over a century, like a time capsule of old Oregon.

Treehouse motel and treehouse-building school.

A chance to sleep among the firs and pines of the Oregon forest.

An art gallery home to a plethora of art from local artists who can often be seen hard at work.