Places quartzcity Wants to Go

This corn maze so big you may want to pack a lunch, and possibly a flaregun.

A bronze monument to the infamous radio broadcast in the real New Jersey town where the fictional Martians crash-landed.

Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

"There's nothing there," and other lies the KGB told us.

An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.

This "dead marsh" sits among the largest sand dunes in the world, a forest frozen in time.

First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.

Science fiction's grandfather has a fittingly marvelous tomb.

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

The tallest stationary dunes on Earth also happen to sing.

The remains of diamond fever taken over by the desert.

A fine, large-aperture telescope available for public use.

Nikola Tesla's ashes are held in a golden sphere, surrounded by his works.

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

An unrealized dream to wirelessly electrify the entire Earth.

An abandoned Gold Coast-era mansion once intended for the exiled ruler of Albania, who never arrived.

Enter the cabin of a life-sized Hindenburg replica.

A serpentine highway twists and turns over the treacherous Norwegian Sea.

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.