Places lunarassault Wants to Go

Legendary DIY skatepark where Portland’s best skaters and curious onlookers gather daily.

The life’s work of a sculptor preserved in the Maine woods.

An old greyhound bus station that's been converted into a movie theater and bar, celebrating cult-classic movies and acting as a hub for Idaho-based independent film production.

Bronze frogs link the town’s hidden waterways with the people who shaped it.

The first commercial phone line west of St. Louis was installed thanks to a group of Cherokee businessmen.

A thousand years old and the largest of its kind in the world.

The last surviving 19th-century blast furnace in Connecticut.

A retired tobacco farmer's pet project turned into a sturdy miniature city.

This scented city oasis was a labor of love.

This vast kitty-themed collection illustrates the history of human-cat interaction.

This North Carolina museum is keeping the pinball craze alive, with a little Space Invaders on the side.

Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.

North Carolina's finest examples of Native American pictographs have survived for 5,000 years.

A historic covered bridge, only one of two remaining in North Carolina.

A 120-year-old legend concerning an empty circular patch in the North Carolina woods.

A cabin completely covered in coffee mugs, where visitors are welcome to leave one of their own—if they can find an empty nail.

One of the most intact and well-preserved skeletons of a mammoth in the world is displayed in a tiny Utah town.

A cobalt-lit cemetery statue that has inspired decades of local legends.

The largest mausoleum on the West Coast, with over seven miles of corridors, perched on a riverside bluff.

An oddities shop with incredible permanent displays on top of its collection of purchasable curiosities.

This hulking rock formation balances on a pedestal that is 3 feet by 17 inches.

A giant stalk of celery honors the Japanese farmers who once cultivated the area.

This towering sweet treat is big enough to share... with an entire city.

The site of Minnesota’s worst mining disaster, now reclaimed by nature.