Places roadtriptammy Wants to Go

Once defending the city of New Orleans from invasion by sea, this fort faces an uncertain future.

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

The location along the shores of the Great Salt Lake of what was once called, "The Coney Island of the West", now sits barren due to arson and time.

Made of giant chains and hung with shackles, this iron cross honors those unknowns who perished under American slavery.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

During the Industrial Revolution this “Temple of Invention” was full of intricate miniature machines and gadgets.

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

Abandoned concert venue legendary for its rock counterculture.

The final resting place of the great escape artist, where some still gather to wait for his escape from death.

The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.

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

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

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

The sci-fi villain is a little-known inhabitant of the U.S. capital's largest cathedral.

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

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

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.

This rugged area of red rocks and arches is often considered one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

An abandoned relic of the city's failed experiment with below ground transit.

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.

Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.