Places OKonheim Wants to Go

Small teepee-like houses built for TB patients have become sheds, studios, and bus stops around Colorado Springs.

A once-groundbreaking power plant turned into a hotel and mini-museum of archeological and geological wonders.

Once the fallout shelter of a dictator, this sprawling bunker is now a combined history museum and contemporary art gallery.

Historic home of America's sweetheart sharpshooter, Annie Oakley.

The oldest U.S. Government building in California, and it's State Historic Landmark #1.

A hacienda that features all things uniquely Yucatán.

A unique museum dedicated to the Gullah-Geechee people, housed within an old oyster cannery.

This memorial pyramid marker honors one of the United States Government's first official camel riders.

Since World War II people have been decorating this stretch of the Yuma desert with signatures arranged out of rocks.

This First Nations monument is a peaceful spot with vast views of the Calgary prairie.

This small beach park is littered with a collection of unique driftwood sculptures.

Secret hideaway for an alternative beach experience.

A hollow cement depiction of time's inexorable effect on the human body.

These little-known sands dunes are a geological anomaly in Saskatchewan's southern prairies.

The unusual lighthouse looms over waves of prairies with no sea in sight.

This Canadian island is a veritable garden of decay with countless abandoned structures dotting the landscape.

Come for the springs; stay for the mud bath.

Nature took her revenge on the "Wickedest City in the World."

The rusting hulk of a hand-powered, nearly 160-year-old submarine abandoned in 1869 due to the ravages of decompression sickness.

A 19th-century utopian religious society designed to align with the latitude of Jerusalem.

One of only a handful of seaside temples in Korea, this sacred space is home to a legendary healing Buddha statue and a traffic safety prayer pagoda.

One man's exploration of the human form, including the bizarre and delightful "Man Attacked by Babies."

Across the Pacific in a raft, a museum dedicated to Thor Heyerdahl's now legendary expedition.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.