Places samfsm Wants to Go

Craggy concrete faces are hidden in the walls of this artificial cave along the San Antonio River.

A National Historic Landmark with a scenic clock tower and park filled with deer and peacocks, plus a military museum.

An old train trestle re-imagined as an Egyptian obelisk.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

Within this beautiful Pittsburgh cemetery, a unique headstone bears witness to one man's eternal love for Jaws.

The residents of the Neighborhood of Make-Believe live without much fanfare within the Pittsburgh Children's Museum.

This restaurant offers a side of antiques, curios, and a bathroom chock full of owls.

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

A permanent outdoor art installation made up of more than 100 mushroom-shaped lights.

Colorful murals stationed throughout Charlotte bring poetry to everyone.

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

America's greatest forgotten garden and the former stomping grounds of Son of Sam.

Along the Palisades skyline are the ruins of a large mansion built in 1911 and demolished in the 1930s.

Read between the lines of the subway map to find the hidden abandoned Civil War fort.

An abandoned Gold Coast-era mansion once intended for the exiled ruler of Albania, who never arrived.

Etchings in a pile of boulders on the Long Island Sound are a monument to vanquished native peoples.

This old cement mine has been used as everything from a mushroom farm to a recording studio.

A ruined mansion hidden in the woods of the Hudson Valley, home of a tragically doomed romance.

Three witches are said to be buried beneath these unmarked concrete graves.

This high desert botanical garden is a unique display of New Mexico’s ecology and culture.

These Pre-Columbian petroglyphs contain representations of birds, deer, hunters, and even some early Native flute players.

The remains of a 19th century spring, and the site of an infamous unsolved murder.

Step into Monet's world at this fine-dining restaurant in the middle of a New Jersey sculpture park.

Step inside Lucy, the world's largest "elephant."