Places travmp Wants to Go

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

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

An 18th-century Spanish watchtower made entirely of seashell and concrete.

Built to house a chapter of the Knights Templar, this grandiose building is a relic of Freemasonry in Chicago a century ago.

America's post-nuclear-attack chambers of Congress.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

A multiversal transit station located right below a highway interchange.

This church in Pittsburgh is home to the largest collection of religious relics in North America.

This 40-room dwelling tucked within a cliff was built by the basin's prehistoric residents.

This forgotten Frank Lloyd Wright house is an architectural marvel at the end of a sleepy residential street.

The sole remaining outpost of a once-thriving South Carolina chain still sells “pic-a-nic” baskets.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

Stroll the grounds built by murder, suicide, and dirty oil money at one of Hollywood's most filmed mansions.

Once strictly off-limits, this lower level housing curious and priceless vehicles of the Petersen Automotive Museum is now open to the public.

This Arizona observatory is famous for investigations into Martian life, and as the place humans first spotted Pluto.

The historic bar where local ship captains, traders, and gold miners would come together to do business a century ago.

A historic estate packed with George Washington's heirlooms, and its own nuclear bunker.

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

Turnip-shaped island just off the Michigan shore in Lake Huron.

From pre-war whiskey cocktails to prohibition-era speakeasy secrecy, this bar has seen it all.

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.