Places rpernelli Wants to Go

This Central New York ghost town was once a prosperous railroad community.

The sculptor was instructed to add “stallion attributes” to the general's bronze mare.

This Cold War–era fallout shelter was actually a storage facility for the nation's emergency currency.

This maze-like, oceanfront gift shop—the nation’s largest— has been serving kitsch to the Myrtle Beach community for over 80 years.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

Introducing the Green Fairy to her fawning masses.

This memorial commemorating fallen Swiss Guards of the French Revolution has been called the saddest stone in the world.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

Erosion and time have created a naturally-formed water park.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

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

One of the Eight Wonders of Kansas and the first official National Natural Monument these stark formations look like nature's Stonehenge.

This erect, phallic geological spire wasn't always named so domestically.

Long before guestbooks and hotels, frontier travelers signed their names on this rock face.

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

This shallow pit was once used to send over 20,000 buffalo plummeting to their death.

A waterfall 600 ft. inside a mountain, once the bane of gold miners, is now a spectacle of nature.

The highest point in South Dakota contains the ashes of Valentine McGillycuudy, the "Holy White Man."

Despite repeated attempts to make it work, this former mining town is now nothing but dust and memories.

This replica stave church looks like a piece of Norway was simply plopped down in South Dakota.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

This foolish Victorian sea fort was converted to a deluxe hotel.