Places Shylaann Wants to Go

This mountain tram provides stunning views while hanging from a single, steel thread.

This one-woman cemetery was a small civil rights victory.

Steep canyon walls hide a forested oasis in the West Texas desert.

Ruins of a once-opulent grand Victorian resort.

This eclectic, mosaic-clad home includes a bamboo ping-pong loft and a "Whispermaphones" intercom.

A spring-fed pool so deep it's used for scuba diving as well as swimming.

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.

Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

Austin’s nonprofit-run graffiti park where street art is meant to be painted over.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

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

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

This hidden gem of a garden has one of the only surviving Victorian ferneries in America.

A quiet, gothic haven nestled between Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill and Point Breeze neighborhoods.

This lush forest valley was once mined for lumber to the extent that it was once nicknamed "The Pennsylvania Desert."

The only way to see Pittsburgh is from the top of this lookout point, just like the ancient members of the native peoples did.

The remains of a community that was forced to move for a dam that never materialized still rot in this Pennsylvania park.

The oldest farmer's market in America is so ancient it was approved by the King of England.

A modern ghost town whose inhabitants were driven away by the growth of nuclear power.

A clone-tree in Washington Square Park sprung from seeds that went to the Moon and back.

A museum dedicated to the strange and extravagant costumes and memorabilia of the mummers, a tradition older than Philadelphia itself.

These beautiful ruins deep in the Pennsylvania woods are thought to have been a ski lodge or a speakeasy, but no one really knows.