Places Doug Gerlach Wants to Go

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

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

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

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

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

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

In the bowels of a 19th-century brewery lurks a fine-dining restaurant offering an array of themed feasts.

The ancestral home of the 21st president of the United States of America.

One of Frank Lloyd Wright's final works was this UFO church.

This forgotten Frank Lloyd Wright house is an architectural marvel at the end of a sleepy residential street.

Six tiny houses built for working class people form the largest intentional cluster of Wright homes anywhere.

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.

Taste the white whiskey that the United States' first president once distilled and enjoyed.

The only place for a truly presidential dram.

The only recreation of William Shakespeare's indoor playhouse.

Edison's cast-in-place concrete houses were a failure, but way ahead of their time.

Now abandoned, the first public health hospital in the U.S. saw more than one million immigrants from around the world.

Maine's oldest diner also happens to win acclaim for its elevated comfort food.

A library of only unpublished manuscripts.