Places Ryan Haupt Wants to Go

An artificial tree in the University of Connecticut greenhouses holds a collection of orchids, mosses, and other tropical epiphytic plants.

This little gem of a museum is a hidden jewel filled with prehistoric treasures.

Antiques and recycled art surround this cabin designed to resemble a 19th-century schoolhouse.

A decaying garage hidden amid the dense forest is all that remains of a once-prosperous dairy farm.

This tombstone marks the final resting place of the beloved 1990's character, Ernest P. Worrell.

This wonderful rock formation constitutes the first geopark in Uruguay.

The center preserves and houses artifacts ranging from the colonial era to modern times from across Appalachia.

This former zinc operation has a 90-year toxic history.

This tree was once used to calculate the decrease of the Baltic Sea.

This popular cave pool is truly magical, despite the crowds.

Visitors to this shop will find fossils, minerals, meteorites, skeletons, oddities, and much more.

Above Breckenridge, a destructive mining technique sits sunken in a small pond.

If you like Art Deco you will love this bridge.

The first mural ever dedicated to the women of the Black Panther Party.

An echo chamber with a waterfall wrapped around its base at the Embassy of Canada in Washington, D.C.

In the middle of an abandoned stretch of old Route 50 lies a tombstone that weighs three tons.

Inside this park, an engineering marvel from the early 20th-century still stands.

A spectacular tribute to statesman and philanthropist Andrew Mellon.

A striking memorial to the 21 lives lost in an explosion at the Washington Arsenal

This abandoned Victorian-style house was built in 1884.

A former factory now pays tribute to a local industry fueled by sardines.

A bunker "with enough U.S. currency to replenish the cash supply east of the Mississippi" in the event of nuclear war now protects nitrate film.

A beautiful hidden gem in central West Virginia.

This twice-relocated "Usonian" home is among the smallest built by master architect Frank Lloyd Wright.