Places ShutterShelle Wants to Go

Obscure Freemasons still live in D.C.’s largest private residence.

A Spiritualist house of worship where believers communicate with the dead in the spirit world.

The winding route passes through an enclosed alleyway, two tunnels, and leads to the White House basement.

A hidden gem on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol Building designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

A historic neighborhood church is reborn as a psychedelic arts collective.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

Greenery cloaks this serene sculpture inspired by the famous Lost Gardens of Heligan.

This Quebec estate is home to the elaborate gardens of a self-taught horticulturist.

Earth's greatest purely vertical drop at 4,101 feet.

This colorful creation wasn't always a welcome part of Toronto's Moccasin Trail Park.

Soaring over the Niagara Whirlpool since 1916.

Legend says that this short Canadian tunnel still holds the dying screams of a girl who burned alive.

An abandoned Victorian-era amusement park is rusting away amidst luxury houses.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

A playground inspired by differential calculus dangles from the ceiling of the Liberty Science Center.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

A collection of over 15,000 zines works to preserve DIY publishing culture.

When the Austin Dam failed it destroyed much of Austin...and then it failed again.

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

Once the "Eighth Wonder of the World," this iron railroad bridge was decimated by a tornado.