Places Melanicholia Wants to Go

One Pittsburgh musician's decades-in-the-making memorabilia collection is on display at this rock-n-roll curio shop.

The Cold War-era "underground Pentagon" is a sprawling subterranean hideaway for the Defense Department.

The universally beloved children's television figure is interred on a high hilltop in one of western Pennsylvania's oldest cemeteries.

A face emerges from the landscape when seen from the air.

The site of the gruesome massacre—and maybe cannibalism—of five men, a tragedy that made Alferd Packer infamous.

This otherwise unremarkable ski town building marks the site of Butch Cassidy's first robbery.

Colorado's only true geyser is hidden within the San Juan National Forest.

A British general, a suggestive tree, a map of paradise.

Unlike most arches, this geological oddity formed in a volcanic dike.

This National Natural Landmark is one of the best examples of a “mass wasting” in the world.

As part of an 800-year-old tradition, a man parades through town covered in a suit made out of spiky burrs.

Believe it or not, this is the final resting place of the man who created the Odditorium.

This historic, one-acre island is the only legal place to camp in the city of Richmond.

This 13th-century monastery chiseled into the side of a mountain is equipped with a bridge that can be lifted to protect against raids.

The purported world's shortest international bridge connects a homeowner in Canada to his backyard in New York.

A castle built for love, and abandoned due to heartbreak.

One of the last active volcanoes on the Eastern seaboard.

An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.

George Lucas donated this park to honor the birthplace of his two biggest movie franchises.

This infamous prison has a store where you can buy goods crafted by incarcerated people.

Law-protected wreckage serves as a peculiar memorial for an almost forgotten World War II tragedy.

Across Ring Mountain is a vast collection of Native American petroglyphs unique to the region.

Of all the origin stories for weed's secret code, this one likely has the goods.

This Scottish graveyard is the final resting place of the man who inspired the character Ebenezer Scrooge.