Places sburke4444 Wants to Go

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

Take a drunken tour inside the world's largest known geode.

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

The magic's in the hole!

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

An underwater city for the dead.

Just a few miles from downtown Atlanta is a trail covered in a crazy collection of outsider art.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.

The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

One person’s lost luggage is another person’s treasure.

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

A prohibition-style speakeasy takes up residence in the last Victorian residence in Hollywood.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.