Places postscript Wants to Go

Home of Philip Johnson, one of the 20th century's most influential architects.

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

Tour the luxe "glass cage" that inspired and unnerved the architecture world upon its debut.

Former hotel turned into haunted playground.

These massive mitts are made of 30 tons of devotional bronze.

The peaceful space is adorned by paintings by the famed abstract artist Mark Rothko.

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

Home to the infamous "Typhoid Mary" and the worst loss of life in New York's history prior to September 11, 2001.

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

In upstate New York, gorgeous waterfalls and a watermill are slowly being reclaimed by nature.

Carved by a waterfall in a hard-to-reach rock formation, this heart-shaped rock has inspired romantics for decades.

A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.

In the remote high desert of New Mexico, a strange array of poles beckon fury from above.

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.