Places wheninroam Wants to Go

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

A multimedia experience that chronicles the atrocities of racism.

A playground built by the kids that is a child's wonderland, and a helicopter parent's nightmare.

An inconspicuous footbridge beloved by San Diego locals.

Ingenious bakery opens up the first Cupcake ATM at their flagship location in Beverly Hills.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

An eclectic trailer park retreat in the middle of the California desert.

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.

The old Niles Canyon Aqueduct in the San Francisco Bay Area is a bemusing and secret trail through nature for wayward travelers.

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

An acoustic anomaly with a mysterious cause sits in the heart of Tulsa.

A popular rock that acted as a waymarker for American pioneers.

The world's first ice hotel is still one of the most elaborate and beautiful.

This historic train station has been converted to a locomotive themed hotel.

A floating underwater hotel, created by a Swedish artist.

One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.