Places Melanicholia Wants to Go

Fabulous formations, weird and wonderful wildlife.

Once an opulent Art Nouveau hotspot, the Constanța Casino is one of Romania's most beautiful abandoned buildings.

This feline raises a friendly paw at drivers barreling toward the freeway.

The boulder on which Alexander Hamilton laid his head after a deadly duel can still be visited on the New Jersey coast.

He’s not from around here.

In 1975, a forestry worker in Arizona claimed to have been abducted by a UFO.

Founded by Cliff Barackman of 'Finding Bigfoot' fame, this museum is dedicated to the study of North America's unacknowledged hairy woodland hominids.

The world's largest indoor go-kart racetrack is hiding in Connecticut.

In the parking lot of a fast food restaurant, a statue memorializing a prolific bull elephant.

A bronze statue of Mister Rogers in the neighborhood where he grew up.

The humble home where the famous beat author lived briefly and wrote one of his most famous works.

Hidden in the plaza next to a pizza shop is an amazing little oddities shop.

Visitors to this shop will find fossils, minerals, meteorites, skeletons, oddities, and much more.

The National Park Service’s best-kept secret with views that rival any in D.C.

A 10 million-ton rock once worshiped by the Tahamies Indians, accessed by an astounding staircase.

Spanning an elevation of 160 feet and containing 388 steps, this is Seattle's longest staircase.

This "preacher's pulpit" once used for pagan ritual, is home to a new, and dangerous ritual.

These 4,444 wooden steps straight up a mountain were built to serve a hydroelectric power station but these days, they're mostly used by hikers.

For those with no fear of heights: a skywalk 4,700 feet up on a Chinese mountain.

This vertical pinnacle in China was the inspiration for the floating mountains in the movie “Avatar.”

This former factory has been transformed into a technicolor wonderland, where dozens of local artists have collaborated to create a real choose-your-own-adventure experience.

A literally moving statue of stacked metal giants just continually trying (and failing) to find love.

This iconic neon jester is a local landmark that you might recognize from his cameos in film and television.

The second-largest (of only two in the world) large particle collider is the underdog of experimental physics.