Places shanemwoods Wants to Go

Eat burgers beneath gargantuan taxidermy and thousands of dollar bills in Utah's oldest continuously-operating bar.

A quirky old tree covered in tokens, cans, and bottles of wishes.

This plaque marks the site where the penultimate chapter in the journey of two doomed boys unfolded in an imagined parallel universe.

Local lore holds that Butch Cassidy took an escape route through Red Canyon's sandstone hoodoos after an attempted murder.

The notorious Wild West outlaw was raised in this unassuming abode.

Within the former ghost town of Cisco is a carefully restored tiny town with one resident and its own art residency.

A ghost town that held steady longer than most, but finally gave up the ghost.

A cemetery full of touching tombstones from a community of railroad workers, uranium miners, and Cold War missile launchers.

This lava formation earned its whimsical name from the log-like formation of it stones.

An absolutely beautiful 200-foot stained glass installation traces the evolution of knowledge.

A 300-yard long natural tunnel runs through a ridge deep in the Appalachian Mountains.

An enormous warehouse filled with parade floats collected from over 50 years of patriotic celebrations.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

A secretive collection featuring objects that were designed specifically for U.S. intelligence operations.

This tiny New Jersey village has lived many lives but seems determined to remain a ghost town.

This mystical orb covered in strange symbols is thought to have been used in ancient Greek magical rituals.

This small 16th-century church in Athens is almost entirely surrounded by a modern building.

An ancient octagonal weather station named for the eight Greek gods of wind.

Miraculous tree that seems to sprout out of solid rock.

One of the smallest towns in the United States.

A unique attraction and museum dedicated to exploring iconic roadside structures.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

This former Roman Catholic Church still contains the embalmed hearts and organs of 22 popes.