New York, New York
The Burns Archive
A staggering collection of photographs depicting medical, social, and historical change.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
New York, New York
A staggering collection of photographs depicting medical, social, and historical change.
Picher, Oklahoma
This former mining town was named the most toxic town in America.
Chicago, Illinois
A strange and haunting monument of unknown origin in the historic Graceland Cemetery.
Dallas, Texas
The final resting place of an outlaw, whose legend grew after death.
Louisville, Kentucky
The only building in Louisville (hopefully) that contains two ancient holy skeletons.
Wadsworth, Illinois
A six-story-tall golden pyramid, surrounded by a moat.
Broad Run, Virginia
This pre-Revolutionary War grist mill ground corn and flour for soldiers in seven American wars.
Washington, D.C.
Cold War intelligence agents monitored communist embassies from an attic in a former pigeon coop.
Fairbanks, Alaska
This frozen tunnel in central Alaska is both an engineering feat and a valuable climate classroom.
West Milford, New Jersey
This disastrous New Jersey safari park saw animal attacks, escapes, and disease before being abandoned.
Burlington, Vermont
Scary metal statues adorn some of the signature buildings of Burlington, Vermont.
Franconia, New Hampshire
A short nature trail winds through the greatest works of poet Robert Frost.
North Adams, Massachusetts
Resonating tubes make music from highway overpass.
Port Jervis, New York
A winding, cliffside stretch of road overlooking the Delaware River.
New Hope, Pennsylvania
This stone tower marks a lookout point over the historic Washington Crossing, and maybe some buried treasure.
North Little Rock, Arkansas
The Old Mill shown in the opening credits of “Gone With the Wind” is actually fairly new, and was never a mill at all.
Holbrook, Arizona
For those going through a life transition, a place to leave behind a piece of your former self.
Pomfret, Connecticut
A few stone foundations and an old graveyard are all that is left of this once thriving settlement in the wilds of Connecticut.
Columbia, Missouri
Like Stonehenge, but with boats and oodles more charm.
Green Bay, Wisconsin
A lovely hidden waterfall right off the highway is well worth a stop.
Dundalk, Maryland
This abandoned sea fort has become an accidental bird sanctuary.
West Windsor Township, New Jersey
A bronze monument to the infamous radio broadcast in the real New Jersey town where the fictional Martians crash-landed.
Benicia, California
The rusting remains of the largest assembled WWII fleet on the West Coast.
Boonton Township, New Jersey
This massive boulder is either a unique rock formation created by glacial melt or a magic energy vortex.