Places stefanmarquart Wants to Go

Foragers once flocked to this big beautiful bayou to hunt for pearls.

This vineyard was the site of the infamous Charge of the Light Brigade.

A public urinal so pretty, it was declared a national monument.

Sunset-colored dunes of volcanic ash make taking a poor photo impossible.

The residents of this ominous-sounding street in Pennsylvania liked its name so much they fought to keep it.

130 replicas of world wonders squeezed into just 118 acres of space.

Plenty of old carney magic still haunts this photogenic amusement park.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

The site of the one of the most deadly train wrecks in American history.

The maximum security facility was once thought to have "the bloodiest 47 acres in America."

A tiny memorial for the year the Connecticut River almost destroyed New England.

Open-air cremations in Colorado's self-proclaimed spiritual mecca.

This Seattle joint serves food inside an old train car once used by FDR.

These colossal desert barcodes have been fine-tuning spy satellites for decades.

One of the largest artillery pieces in the world sits in a Washington D.C. parking lot.

Three abandoned missile silos are hiding in plain sight behind a suburban development in Maryland.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

The only surviving leech house in the United Kingdom was a home for bloodsucking worms until the 1900s.

An easy-to-miss plaque marks the building that first held this 19th-century telephone innovation.

A tiny art gallery in Sunnyside helps keep Portland weird.

Crushed coral and crystals give the sand its signature coloration.

This translucent sculpture represents a quintessential component of New York City's skyline.

Seattle's super-sized cowboy apparel once belonged to a themed gas station that wrangled in herds of tourists.

Julia Buccola Petta's body was peculiarly well-preserved when it was exhumed six years after her death.