Places waywardwillard Wants to Go

This museum chronicles the history of a leprosy quarantine hospital that then became a refuge.

One of the last remaining venues on the Old Chitlin’ Circuit is a kaleidoscopic music hall at the end of a dirt road.

A mysterious find dredged from Louisiana waters.

The last standing piece of a famous Honolulu landmark.

This saltwater swimming pool, which is the last of its kind in the United States, is slowly crumbling within sight of multiple high-end beachside hotels.

This monument built by Japanese American immigrants spent decades underground.

Now a pedestrian bridge, this was once part of a narrow-gauge railroad that ran along the east coast of Kauai.

A burial ground for workers at one of Hawai'i's largest sugarcane producers that laid buried for decades.

Hidden behind a YMCA stands the remains of a ceremonial site that dates back hundreds of years, whose ground is still considered sacred to many Hawaiians.

Hawai'i's oldest wooden house was shipped around Cape Horn from Boston in 1820.

A unique collection of Western and Japanese-style graves.

A local pineapple cannery once dumped pineapple trimmings off of this pier, with sometimes smelly results.

This coastal cavern is associated with the Hawaiian god of creation.

A glass display case holds the document that ended the Second World War—which one person signed on the wrong line.

A 1940's shrine dedicated to drowned fishermen on the outskirts of Honolulu.

In 2018, Pohoiki Road was severed by lava flowing from the eruption of Kilauea.

On Waikīkī Beach, a monument to four extraordinary individuals of dual male and female spirits who brought the healing arts from Tahiti to Hawai'i.

This ruined fort and statue are a testament to the last king of Kaua‘i’s savvy diplomacy skills, which briefly brought Russians to Hawai‘i.

Hiding in plane sight.

Ten acres of the Kula Forest Reserve make up this wondrous state park.

Images chiseled into the basalt here date back an estimated 300 years.

An ode to one of the first concerts broadcast via satellite.

This World War II-era bunker is now packed with posters and props from movies and TV shows filmed nearby.

Once the site of the Hawaiian monarchy, this building was originally designed as a palace.