Places Riki Wants to Go

This might just be the TARDIS of bookstores.

A train station that was abandoned by the coal industry and converted into a cocktail bar. Now it’s home to the local visitor bureau.

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

Over 100 concrete munitions bunkers are all that remain of a Pennsylvanian village seized by the US government.

Delicate Wurlitzers, creepy clowns, and The Noid all share space in this insane explosion of kitsch history.

This little-known collection holds everything from "Dracula" notes, to the manuscript of "Ulysses," to the forged works of Shakespeare.

This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

Buildings that dynamite couldn't bring down were abandoned because of bathroom issues.

This little museum in the town where zombies were born celebrates the living dead.

A park full of outsider art, created by college students studying outsider art.

Mutant vegetables, transgenic mosquitos, and atomic rodents span the walls of this one-of-a-kind museum.

Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.

These tourist trap caverns are said to be the former home of a legendary Pennsylvania Hermit.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

A modern ghost town whose inhabitants were driven away by the growth of nuclear power.

Collection of trolley cars in the woods represent one man's attempt to preserve transportation history.

This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.

These beautiful ruins deep in the Pennsylvania woods are thought to have been a ski lodge or a speakeasy, but no one really knows.

A stone arch leads to a cavernous 1930s spring house tucked away in the Pennsylvania woods.

"Dark Sky Park" is heaven on Earth for astronomers, one of the rare U.S. locations with no artificial light pollution.

Once the "Eighth Wonder of the World," this iron railroad bridge was decimated by a tornado.

Sail through this subterranean show cave that is home to a legend that would go on to name nearly everything around it.

Frank Lloyd Wright’s most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.