Places santasarmy Wants to Go

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

Beside a lonely road winding into the hills overlooking Altadena, sits a portal that urges callers to embrace humanity‘s innermost expression: Goodbye

A miniature train theme park, free to the public, laying at the base of the Santa Monica Mountains.

A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.

An extraordinary final resting place full of oversized art, amazing statues, and dead celebrities.

Giant six-pack could provide one person a six-pack a day for 3,351 years.

This steep-walled ravine contains animal-shaped formations made from sandstone.

Over thousands of years, this slot canyon was carved out of the bed of an ancient lake.

These molds for fiberglass statues have formed an eerie, accidental sculpture park.

Relics designed to contain and conceal Yugoslavian submarines.

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

An extraordinary mixture of natural beauty and man-made phenomena.

One of the largest pieces of scientific equipment ever carried on a NASA space shuttle sits in a Chicago alley.

The largest island on the great salt lake is home to curious creatures and strange stories.

An Idaho legend carved out a cave village with his own two hands.

The world's first nuclear power plant is open to visitors looking to role-play a meltdown.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

This set of hot springs also comes with fantastic views.

Between Missoula and Spokane, a family-owned travel center has an unusual museum in the back.

This trail leads to a mine that was used as a sanctuary during the Great Fire of 1910.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

Cave carved out of a huge snow drift collapsed killing one and injuring five in July 2015.