Wingdale, New York
Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center
An abandoned asylum once on the cutting edge of lobotomies may be reborn as a Christian college.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Wingdale, New York
An abandoned asylum once on the cutting edge of lobotomies may be reborn as a Christian college.
Volterra, Italy
This real life asylum of horrors is now an abandoned ruin that hides the unbreakable code to one patient's insanity.
Hellam, Pennsylvania
Hellam Township is reputed to feature seven remote gates, which when passed through in the right order, open an entrance to hell.
Monte di Cuma, Italy
Virgil's many-mouthed gateway to the underworld.
Milton, Scotland
This Scottish bridge seems to compel dogs to leap to their death.
Los Alamos, New Mexico
This museum started as a collection of Manhattan Projects and continues to add exhibits as they are declassified.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.
Wendover, Utah
A proto micro-nation sometimes populated by artists, surrounded on all sides by a Utah most barren.
Walnut Creek, California
This mountaintop beacon is only lit three times a year but shines like some kind of all-seeing eye.
Älvdalen S, Sweden
The world's oldest individual clonal tree looks like a wimp despite standing tall for 9,550 years.
Big Pine, California
Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.
Athens, Greece
A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Small teepee-like houses built for TB patients have become sheds, studios, and bus stops around Colorado Springs.
Aspen, Colorado
Despite being one of the most photographed vistas in the Rockies these twin peaks are rightfully known as the "Deadly Bells."
Colorado Springs, Colorado
The moving metal works of one troubled artist can still be viewed on his front lawn... for now.
U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado
Air Force Academy Chapel made of 100 identical tetrahedrons works to inspire those of all religions.
Buena Vista, Colorado
At the tallest peak in Colorado, an electrifying mix of thin air, lightning, and rivalry.
Denver, Colorado
Wall to wall taxidermy at Denver's oldest and most exotic steakhouse.
Manitou Springs, Colorado
Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.
Lakewood, Colorado
At this Denver landmark, the meals are compulsory, the sopapillas are complimentary, and the insanity is everywhere.
Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
The only natural lake in the world that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
Casper, Wyoming
A popular rock that acted as a waymarker for American pioneers.
Moran, Wyoming
Creek water that starts here has a 50/50 chance of ending up in the Atlantic or the Pacific.