Sauget, Illinois
National Building Arts Center
In a historic steel foundry east of the Mississippi River, thousands of wooden crates hold the architectural remnants of buildings long gone but not forgotten.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Sauget, Illinois
In a historic steel foundry east of the Mississippi River, thousands of wooden crates hold the architectural remnants of buildings long gone but not forgotten.
Queens, New York
Out of a labyrinth of abandoned tunnels and stops, this Queens subway station is arguably the most mysterious—if it exists at all.
White Pine County, Nevada
A Nevada mining boomtown that ran out of silver and luck.
White Pine County, Nevada
These huge stone ovens in the desert fueled the Nevada silver boom, and may have also been a hideout for outlaws.
Baker, Nevada
The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.
Baker, Nevada
This crumbling stump is all that remains of what was once thought to be the oldest living organism.
Nye County, Nevada
The site of an underground detonation of a megaton nuclear bomb in the middle of the Mojave Desert.
Berkeley, California
The only museum of sake in the United States is nestled in an unlikely California college town.
Berkeley, California
A private home built to resemble the shape of a microscopic creature.
Reno, Nevada
This Nevada lake holds its titular natural pyramid and, if the legends are true, a number of dangerous spirits.
Tonopah, Nevada
This massive crater in the middle of nowhere was used to train astronauts for moon landings.
Council Bluffs, Iowa
An obelisk commemorating Lincoln's role in connecting the coasts.
Bratislava, Slovakia
A cableway for car transport.
Belfast, Northern Ireland
This Victorian-era public house has set the standard for pub-style elegance for over a hundred years.
Gatlinburg, Tennessee
An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Nashville, Tennessee
This award-winning men's bathroom was just too beautiful to not allow women to see.
Sweetwater, Tennessee
Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.
Fairfield, Ohio
An unusual, super-sized grocery adventure awaits in an Ohio suburb.
Columbus, Ohio
Georges Seurat’s pointillist masterpiece has been recreated in Ohio in topiary form.
Cleveland, Ohio
A collection of witchcraft artifacts and occult paraphernalia started by the leader of the Long Island Coven.
Chicago, Illinois
A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.
Chicago, Illinois
A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.
Royal, Nebraska
When an ancient supervolcano erupted, some of Nebraska's prehistoric animals were forever preserved in ash.
Harvard, Nebraska
The two-cell building in Nebraska was briefly owned by a teenage boy and then a Hollywood dummy.