Places samanthamooney Wants to Go

A small peaceful park and waterfall tucked amid the urban grind of Midtown Manhattan.

A library and shop devoted to the body, mortality, and bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories

An annual extravaganza of Broadway theater memorabilia.

This subterranean oyster house has been the pearl of Grand Central Station since 1913.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

For over 30 years the walls of this Harlem schoolyard have been a gallery of street art by "Kings and better."

The oldest surviving synagogue in New York City is now a soaring art space.

This former Norwegian sailor's church is slowly being taken over by ramshackle robot musicians.

Star garnets are so rare that you can only find them in two places on Earth—here, you can dig for them.

Idaho’s largest, deepest limestone cave is known for its quirky rock formations and bat population.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.

A Texas museum filled with Broncos and Betties.

One of the last Art Deco gas station still standing in Dallas.

A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.

Home to the first child born to English colonists in North America, this colony mysteriously disappeared while waiting for supplies.

The lesser-known lost colony of Roanoke was a safe haven for formerly enslaved people during the Civil War.

This historic sunny-yellow building has an unfortunate connection to the sinking of the Titanic.

The North Carolina grounds are leased in perpetuity to the British Commonwealth for as long as the WWII sailors are buried there.

So many migrating birds roost on the bridge, it has a special summer speed limit.

Down the road from where the Wright brothers lifted off is another flight tribute practically hidden from sight in the woods.

A curious blend of taxidermy, antique tools, creationism, and a purported antediluvian rock.

Beautiful Gothic-inspired lighthouse stands out among the run-of-the-mill striped fare on Bodies Island.

One of the best places to see wild Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.