Places Opinicus Wants to Go

An abandoned asylum incorporated into a college campus.

A slab of sandstone covered with mysterious 1,000-year-old rock carvings from a vanished North American culture.

The only remnant of a small mining town is an abandoned railroad tunnel that is steeped in ghostly lore.

A miniature world of concrete and stone in Springfield, Ohio.

Prison made famous by The Shawshank Redemption has been out of commission since 1990.

Rare recess caves fill this unbelievably beautiful Ohio park.

This pair of eccentric Ohio castles were built by a pair of brothers who wanted to bring a bit of class to the Ohio wilderness.

These sub-farmland caves are home to a majestic stalactite known as the "Crystal King."

Robots, lasers, and whoopee cushions, oh my!

Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

New York's oldest magic store.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

Home to Hollywood history and a very special salt crystal.

This lesser-known geographic marker was the reference point for all surveys of the continent for 75 years.

This tiny old water tower once doubled as a makeshift jail.

The holiday spirit lingers year-round in the "Christmas City of the High Plains."

A unique blue and yellow phone booth in America's "Little Sweden."

This quaint museum lets you take a ride on its antique carousels.

The grandson of a Kiowa chief created what has become the iconic symbol of a city on the Plains.

The world’s largest combined collection of U.S. and Russian aircraft got its start in a poultry building.

A museum where visitors can learn about greyhounds and (more importantly) pet them.

This Wild West attraction is probably more fiction than history, but that doesn't mean it's not awesome.