Places rkurchak Wants to Go

One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

Storyville was New Orleans' historic red light district and hotbed of jazz music, sometimes referred to simply as "The District."

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

This Seattle joint serves food inside an old train car once used by FDR.

This abandoned bridge to nowhere stands secluded in the woods of a Cleveland suburb.

The entrance to this sinisterly named tunnel hides behind a Tim Hortons.

The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.

A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.

Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

This spectacular track has run continuously since 1882.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

This former Norwegian sailor's church is slowly being taken over by ramshackle robot musicians.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

A house filled to the brim with oddities and curiosities.

An acoustic anomaly with a mysterious cause sits in the heart of Tulsa.

Seattle's own bad art museum located inside Cafe Racer.