Places toniamonkey Wants to Go

America's first public mental health facility.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

This angular Dwarven tunnel cuts through a mountainside in Glacier National Park.

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.

This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.

The first and only carousel with a lineup entirely of insects.

Ruins of a once-opulent grand Victorian resort.

Bridges, terraces, and replicas of historic structures all built of rock and petrified wood by one man.

Beneath the mossy overgrowth covering this once-sprawling campus lies decades of history and the secrets that come with it.

This historic mansion was built as a symbol of love between a husband and wife.

A small Richmond island dotted with the remnants of hundreds of years of history.

The Beaux-Arts aquarium boasts a vast collection of saltwater and freshwater fish on an island in the Detroit River.

This abandoned dream castle and its cemetery look out over the city that once inspired their creation.

This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

Wisconsin's most celebrated export gets the royal treatment on I-94.

“You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.” ― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

Hide from the tourist hordes in these relatively unknown, and unguarded lava caves.

Trash escaped from a landfill to fill beaches with all kinds of treasure.

Whimsical artist house in the New Jersey woods.

This enormous Hindu temple in Queens serves incredible dosas in its basement canteen.

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

The remnants of a wooden-hulled fleet built and abandoned in WWI, now home to a thriving ecosystem.

Bonsai trees that are up to a thousand years old.