San Francisco, California
Internet Archive Headquarters
The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
San Francisco, California
The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.
Los Angeles, California
One of the world's largest collections of rare and magnificent bird specimens.
Heath, Massachusetts
A mysterious collection of stones stand outside a small New England town.
Carlsbad, California
The overgrown ruins of a once thriving World War I-era copper mine.
New York, New York
This speakeasy continues the Prohibition-era legacy of Harlem's jazzy Swing Street.
Ramona, California
This Pringle-shaped ledge makes for the perfect photo op.
Los Angeles, California
The beautiful 1920 Pantages Theatre remains hidden just underneath the LA Downtown Jewelry Exchange.
New York, New York
One of the last full-orchestra recording studios in New York City and an acoustical marvel.
Silver Lake, Oregon
A volcanic fissure over two miles long and up to 70 feet deep.
Reno, Nevada
This Nevada lake holds its titular natural pyramid and, if the legends are true, a number of dangerous spirits.
Vashon, Washington
A bike being "eaten" by a tree is the real Vashon legend behind popular children's book, "Red Ranger Came Calling."
New York, New York
A discreet little stairway on St. Nicholas Avenue leads to a quaint and unexpected cobblestone street of 19th century wooden rowhouses.
Death Valley, California
Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.
Syracuse, Utah
The largest island on the great salt lake is home to curious creatures and strange stories.
Greensburg, Kansas
The United States's largest hand-dug well is topped with a state-of-the-art museum.
Crawfordville, Florida
One of the world’s largest and deepest freshwater springs, where mastodons once roamed.
Rockford, Illinois
The city of Rockford, Illinois is symbolically protected by a quartet of fittingly stony sentinels.
Amboy, California
A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.
Rutland, Vermont
A beautiful, creepy 19th-century castle stands incongruously in rural Vermont.
Meagher, Montana
Mining town from the late 1890s, once home to Calamity Jane.
Sisters, Oregon
The trunks of 3,000 year-old trees lurk beneath the surface of this crystal clear lake in Oregon.
Erin, Tennessee
Hiding behind a grocery store is a spectacular cavern carved as part of an old limestone quarry.
Bayard, Nebraska
This erect, phallic geological spire wasn't always named so domestically.
New Haven, Connecticut
137 graves holding New England's earliest residents.