Places rog18 Wants to Go

A dozen U.S. presidents have stayed at the historic resort, which was known as James Buchanan’s “Summer White House” from 1857-1861.

This post-war motel embodies a little-known, Miami-born architectural style.

This pier made of ice and constructed over the Antarctic winter is used when the resupply cargo ships arrive in summer.

In 1329, Christine Carpenter entered this small stone cell in the hopes of becoming a living saint.

This small bronze pyramid marks the center of Belgrade, but some say it is a Masonic symbol.

A gardener's enduring labor of love is spread throughout a small Vermont town.

This 12-seat movie theater is the smallest in the world.

Part of a highway network meant to connect Miami to Montreal, this 10-mile stretch of road made from red bricks is still around 100 years later.

The camera-toting gargoyle juts out from the exterior of a Gothic cathedral.

Dine on superb local staples in a converted historic church.

Secluded springs in the Rio Grande Gorge offer hot bathing beside the haunted ruins of a stagecoach stop.

A haven for book enthusiasts across the street from Retiro Park.

Why walk on this historical site when you can zoom down instead?

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

In 2018, Pohoiki Road was severed by lava flowing from the eruption of Kilauea.

It's unclear what caused the fire that led to this opulent hotel's demise.

When the sun sets, the customers arrive—but they’re not human.

The final resting place of the world's first nuclear reactor.

This innocuous New Mexico storefront was once the secret jump-off spot for Manhattan Project scientists.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

The site of an underground detonation of a megaton nuclear bomb in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

The birthplace of both the Atomic Age and Godzilla, and the namesake of the bathing suit.

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

"Not too many people can say they've had a nuclear bomb dropped on them, not too many would want to." — Walter Gregg.