Places theunknowntxtr Wants to Go

This stone memorial pays tribute to a massive shipwreck which was sadly overshadowed by the death of John Wilkes Booth.

Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.

Better known as the "Body Farm," this unique research facility has been studying how human bodies break down since the 1980s.

One of the world's premier laboratories for hydraulic engineering research takes full advantage of the water's power.

Sleepy Minneapolis block beats Guinness Record for most churches on one city block.

One of two giant blue cockerel statues erected with an intentional double meaning.

A Museum Dedicated to the Heroes That Fight Fire.

This 1960s kinetic artwork has been restored and is once again whirling away in downtown Minneapolis.

A palatial art deco restroom.

A Foundry on a Sleepy Street.

Downtown Minneapolis mixed art and function by turning some of their sewer covers into works of art.

A Building for Your (Former) Funerary Needs.

The Real LegoLand.

A warehouse for all of your architectural details.

A butcher shop in Minneapolis has all the meats and cheeses you’d expect from any of its kind—except that all the products are vegan.

Enter the Forest of the Elves.

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

Manhattan's lighthouse, erected at the insistence of the unsinkable Molly Brown.

Plot your trip through the city on the sidewalk.

An abandoned asylum where patients have been forgotten but their possessions remain.

During the holidays, a vintage subway train whisks New Yorkers back in time.

A long abandoned hospital building on the outskirts of NYC.

A Manhattan courthouse hides a small but scathing memorial to Holocaust injustice.

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.