Places Touristish Wants to Go

Built in 1981 in collaboration with Andy Warhol, this giant piece of pop art stands on the campus of Colorado State University.

Birds with backpacks expedite film development for a rafting company on a remote Colorado river.

The most iconic structure in Scotland has been home to bishops, colonels, and Sean Connery characters.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

Medicinal spa created from the mineral-rich runoff of a geothermal power plant

Just a few miles from downtown Atlanta is a trail covered in a crazy collection of outsider art.

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.