Places wherearewedude Wants to Go

The poet Walt Whitman was a frequent visitor to this spot, the highest on Long Island.

The famed poet was born in 1819 in a farmhouse built by his father.

This two-and-a-half-ton chunk of rock was gifted to the Prudential company by the British Navy in 1955.

These winding paths and vertical ramps have been inspiring skateboarders for nearly half a century.

An abandoned asylum once on the cutting edge of lobotomies may be reborn as a Christian college.

This locally-famous crevasse in New York State is icy all year round.

A small structure built from used railroad ties honors the short term of America's 20th president.

A storefront museum in Asbury Park honoring the Jersey Shore’s deep history of mystery—including the Jersey Devil.

A wooden theatre that remains the heart of a charming Victorian-era New Jersey enclave.

Marie told fortunes from her small stand on the Boardwalk for decades, including to a young Bruce Springsteen who would busk outside her booth.

This monument pays tribute to the musicians responsible for creating the Sound Of Asbury Park.

Memorial to the 137 lives lost on a ship fire, the whole hulk of which washed up on the Asbury Park shore.

A reservoir of vintage pinball machines and arcade games for the nostalgic and thrill seeking.

Vacant Beaux-Arts buildings that serve as reminders of a beach town’s glory days.

View roughly 7,000 books amassed over decades by the author and avid bibliophile.

A wedding chapel, vintage clothing shop, and bar all under one roof.

This bridge is haunted by the ghost of a distraught mother.

This modest post office sits on the site of H.H. Holmes' famous murder castle.

An unassuming store hides relics of its former life as the jazz club that hosted some of the best black performers of the 1920s and '30s.

The U.S. Supreme Court's secret Cold War relocation facility in the mountains of North Carolina.

A mountaintop space observatory that is certified dark.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

A wonderful display of arts and crafts handmade by local artisans in the Southern Appalachians.

Gnarled canopies of pink and purple wildflowers arch over the trail to the summit.