Places travelsandtipples Wants to Go

Pennsylvania’s creepiest roadside attraction is a haunting example of roadside kitsch.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

This colossal underground passage paved the way for large-scale drainage and access tunnels across the U.S., but it almost wasn’t built.

How a bat poo mine became a major Native American archaeological site—and connections to legendary red-haired giants.

This former Mormon settlement is reemerging from the receding waters of Lake Mead.

Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.

This unique art installation used boiler tubes from a decommissioned power plant to resemble Antelope Canyon.

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

The smallest country in the world.

The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.

A giant concrete churn carries the legacy of American resilience, unity, and greed.

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

This institution collects the history of burlesque dancing with a titillating collection of ephemera and pasties.