Places robtheller Wants to Go

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

While you're unlikely to find riches here these days, this remote mine is a time capsule of the Gold Rush era.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

This Boeing KC-97 tanker is now a restaurant for aviation lovers.

This semi-spooky remnant of an abandoned hotel provides fantastic views.

A late-night restaurant empire was launched from this humble storefront.

A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.

The ancient tomb acts as a calendar that keeps perfect time.

This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.

An eponymous directional signpost erected by the first president of the United States.

This tree is a living witness to the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement.

This historic, one-acre island is the only legal place to camp in the city of Richmond.

This ancient settlement contains some of the largest earthen mounds in North America.

The ill-fated plan to reroute the Mississippi so that Union ships could bypass Confederate fortifications on the river bend.

The beloved beast's taxidermy remains sit in the Natural History Museum's cafe.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

The monster at the center of the Darwin Center Spirit Collection.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

A plaque pays tribute to the artist's longtime London home.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

Inside this home, the Icelandic national anthem was born.

Imagine having a street run right through your home, or better yet, a historic bridge three stories high.

The ritual has been performed uninterrupted for nearly 700 years.