Places rdscholar7 Wants to Go

Nature and beauty amidst pollution and industrial wreckage.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

Wine bottle sculpture with a ship's stateroom inside.

One of the last few places in Manhattan that employed a pneumatic systemic keeps it on display.

This shrine dedicated to the Virgin Mary is also a tribute from a mother to her fallen son.

Inside this 150-year-old barn turned antique shop is a vast array of items for curios hunters.

Each step is a mere four inches tall, said to be measured by the stride of a woman wearing a hobble skirt.

Where the oil industry began.

The residents of this ominous-sounding street in Pennsylvania liked its name so much they fought to keep it.

A daily replay of the experiment that proved the rotation of the Earth.

This lush forest valley was once mined for lumber to the extent that it was once nicknamed "The Pennsylvania Desert."

The final resting place of one of the most iconic musicians of the '80s.

The site of the worst mining disaster in Ohio's history.

The childhood home of one of Ohio's favorite sons, pilot and war hero Eddie Rickenbacker.

For decades, this waterfall remained hidden because of an artificial dam.

Railroad came. People came. Railroad left. Town died.

A mummified Spanish monk found in the walls of an Ecuadorian church, alongside a mummified mouse.

It took 160 years to complete the most ornate church in Ecuador.

This Ecuadorian cemetery is home to a jaw-dropping topiary wonderland.

Partially submerged Buddha heads freckle Chicago’s neighborhoods.

This monolithic statue was erected in honor of Chief Black Hawk (even if it wasn't made to look like him).

A small abandoned and abused cemetery that has become a magnet for ghost hunters.

A modern sliver of architecture in Roma.

Architectural monsters are devouring this palace's every door and window.