San Simeon, California
Hearst Castle
The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
San Simeon, California
The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.
Lucas, Kansas
A unique attraction and museum dedicated to exploring iconic roadside structures.
Danvers, Massachusetts
Memorial of the Salem witchcraft hysteria in the town of Danvers, where it all began.
Cedar Creek, Texas
A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.
San Diego, California
Lucha Libre (Mexican Wrestling) themed taco shop.
Baltimore, Maryland
The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."
Custer, South Dakota
The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.
Williamsburg, Virginia
Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.
Boston, Massachusetts
Museum dedicated to awful artwork.
Bangor, Maine
The eccentric mansion of one of the most popular horror authors of modern times.
Chiefland, Florida
A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.
San Francisco, California
Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.
Hendersonville, North Carolina
These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.
Carlsbad, New Mexico
The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."
Fredericksburg, Virginia
The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.
Los Angeles, California
The last of its kind in the country.
Rock, West Virginia
This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.
New Mexico
One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.
Vienna, Austria
Macabre museum devoted to historical Viennese murders.
Vienna, Austria
This former insane asylum now holds a pathological anatomy museum.
Vienna, Austria
The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.
Antarctica
The best place to send your postcards home from Antarctica.