Places thanson Wants to Go

The exit of the largest prisoner-of-war escape attempt on American soil during World War II.

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

A clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.

The final resting place of the living embodiment of the famous Forest Service symbol.

This popular pitstop lives up to its name.

This bomb shelter-themed bar has barely changed since it opened.

This popular pilgrimage site offers a hole filled with holy healing dirt.

Stock up on all your horror paraphernalia at this year-round Halloween emporium.

Explore a misty river canyon from a metal bridge system.

The oldest continuously-operating Chinese restaurant in the United States has been in business since 1911.

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

This trail leads to a mine that was used as a sanctuary during the Great Fire of 1910.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

Natural rock water slides hidden in the remote forests of northern Idaho.

A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

This little dolphin is the first monument dedicated to the LGBTQ+ community in the southern United States.

A health museum containing a 27’’½-foot intestine.

A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

There is an unmarked red button hidden over Houston's Buffalo Bayou that is just begging to pushed...

An oddities shop packed with twisted treasures inspired by Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe.

A small "palace" and museum made of, and devoted entirely, to salt.

It specializes in outsider art and artifacts of secret societies.

A small canyon with petroglyphs and a seasonal waterfall, only a short hike from the remnants of old Route 66.