Places UncleTravelingMatt Wants to Go

An abandoned relic of the city's failed experiment with below ground transit.

Historical structures and natural wonders await visitors to this preserve.

One of the world’s largest collections of paper memorabilia chronicles 4,000 years of papermaking.

A series of caves under Castle Hill that once held the prisoner Vlad Tepes, better known as Count Dracula.

One of the world’s most dangerous roads may be this abandoned shore route in Iceland.

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

This Wall Street bar was once a hub of revolutionary activity where Washington famously bid farewell to his troops.

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

The real life town from the Pied Piper of Hamelin has a mechanical puppet show that retells the famous story many times a day.

The art critic claiming that "only an ape could have done this" was in fact right.

This hat-shaped fountain pays tribute to a centuries-old textile tradition in the Yucatán Peninsula.

Witness these plains giants that nearly became extinct in the late 1800s.

A sacred collection of indigenous rock art.

Built into the side of Jack's Mountain, these steps were once the daily commute of local quarry-workers.

Descend into a subterranean labyrinth of geologic wonder and local lore.

Pennsylvania's own Roswell-style UFO mystery.

Sleep in a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home or dine in the treetops in this architecture park.

A T. Rex statue dressed as Mister Rogers honors the children’s-television pioneer.

This riverside restaurant delivers elegant dining in a historic 1901 train depot. 

This artwork in a Pennsylvania forest will gradually be overtaken by nature.

The first burial place of the Harmonist Society, a utopian community for which the surrounding town of Harmony is named.

The Pennsylvania landscape depicted by a quarter mile of mosaics made from used road signs.

A quirky collection of outsider art made from automobile parts.