Places rmcmacki Wants to Go

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

Town of spiritualists and mediums in Florida.

The second largest waterfall by volume in the U.S., Willamette Falls is outdone only by Niagara in the amount of water that is pushed northward.

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

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

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

A small storefront museum explores the history and myth of West Virginia's famous urban legend.

Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?

This home is decked out like a psychedelic explosion of colors and bowling balls.

One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

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 stealthy Apache hideaway that became the haunting site of a mass grave.

A hollow cement depiction of time's inexorable effect on the human body.

Behind a bodega is a small museum of relics and ephemera showcasing the history of New York.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

A former Oz-themed attraction that has fallen into disrepair, but still holds some of the original magic.

The subtle science of a master molecular gastronomist.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

This ruined fort hidden at the top of Central Park can't seem to keep from losing its historical plaques.

A tiny red pebble marks what may be the quietest outdoor spot in the United States.

The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.

A giant 400-acre preserve in North Florida for displaced wolves.

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