Places toniamonkey Wants to Go

The city is full of whimsical portals to another world.

This pebble beach is so beautiful that taking its rocks is against the law.

Though tiki culture has gone in and out of fashion, the Tonga Hut has always been flying the flag in Los Angeles.

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

A hard-to-reach oasis in a desolate corner of Death Valley National Park.

River pirates, murderous bandits, and serial killers used this Illinois cave as their debauched hideout.

The ruins of a cotton mill that was burned in the Civil War are still hidden in a Georgia forest.

A European-style bath house in Chicago.

This Virginia railway overpass is said to be haunted by a serial killer in a rabbit costume.

A wealth of local folk art, antiques, and curios, without ever leaving your car.

Over 100 concrete munitions bunkers are all that remain of a Pennsylvanian village seized by the US government.

Chicago's North Park Village was once the largest municipal sanatorium in the country.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

Curious cave that stays a cool 56 degrees all year long.

A tunnel of hardened lava along Maui’s famous Road to Hana.

Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.

Former hotel turned into haunted playground.

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

The end of the 4 Line is also the end of the line for 300,000 souls in one of NYC's most illustrious cemeteries.

The site of a tragic massacre that spawned a multimedia franchise.

The childhood home of Henry Jones Jr. is now an adventure-themed bed and breakfast.

An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.

Storybook cottage in Beverly Hills was once the site of 1920s silent film studio, affectionately known as "The Witch's House."

This freshwater spring fills with 10,000 gallons of water per minute.