Places Ole Wants to Go

A reservoir of vintage pinball machines and arcade games for the nostalgic and thrill seeking.

One of the world's largest model railroads is a mind-boggling achievement.

This scout retreat, still in use today, was the filming location for the original “Friday the 13th” film.

A historic grist mill and active sluice on the Black River.

This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.

This abandoned Poconos resort is haunted by a history of kitschy romance and a violent fugitive.

These beautiful ruins deep in the Pennsylvania woods are thought to have been a ski lodge or a speakeasy, but no one really knows.

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.

In the woods of New Jersey lie the ruins of a munitions village abandoned after World War I and the remnants of a 1920s wooden racetrack.

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

This bar hosts an ever-evolving napkin art installation devoted to an American president.

A wondrous old library overlooking the nation's capital.

A historic neighborhood church is reborn as a psychedelic arts collective.

This grand gothic brewery has been pumping out suds for over a hundred years.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

The Corinthian columns that towered over Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration stand proud.

Long-abandoned trolley tunnels just a mile away from the White House are turning into an art space.

These tourist trap caverns are said to be the former home of a legendary Pennsylvania Hermit.

Collection of trolley cars in the woods represent one man's attempt to preserve transportation history.

"Dark Sky Park" is heaven on Earth for astronomers, one of the rare U.S. locations with no artificial light pollution.

Mysterious rocks that ring musically when struck.

A park full of outsider art, created by college students studying outsider art.

This natural wonderland is a unique chance to explore a Carolina bay, a mysterious geological formation of unknown origin.