Album: Retro Travel Posters

Description: Visit Sherman Dam in Tierra Robada. A concrete dam walls off a blue reservoir from red rock canyon walls as a dirt road winds through the desert in this GTA San Andreas travel poster.

Description: Before the casinos swallowed the boardwalk, Atlantic City had rolling chairs. This Golden Age travel poster puts a couple on the boards with an attendant pushing, striped umbrellas behind them, and a grand domed hotel above it all. The World's Playground.

Description: Four presidents carved into the Black Hills under an orange sky, pine trees below, South Dakota stretching in every direction. Gutzon Borglum spent fourteen years on this. The travel poster captured it in one frame.

Description: A yellow Victorian with teal shutters, the Cape May lighthouse in the distance, and nothing between them but sea grass and sand. New Jersey's southernmost tip as it was meant to be seen.

Description: Hershey's kiss-shaped streetlamps, a wooden coaster full of riders, the carousel in full swing — this mid-century Hersheypark poster captures the sweetest place on earth before it got corporate and enormous.

Description: The Cape Hatteras lighthouse stands in its diagonal stripes against a sunset gradient, sea oats in the foreground, ocean behind it. OBX as it exists on every real estate listing and beach house wall from Nags Head to Ocracoke.

Description: A kingdom for kids — and this mid-century travel poster earns it. The castle, the blue monorail, the gondola skyride over Lancaster. Dutch Wonderland before anyone had seen anything like it in Pennsylvania Dutch country.

Description: A rainbow cuts through the mist, the Maid of the Mist navigates the churn below, and the falls go blue-green-white in every direction. Nature's supreme spectacle. Hard to argue.

Description: Discover the wild heart of the South. Spanish moss, swamp water, and an airboat glide through the Greater Leonida Wetlands in this GTA travel poster from the swampy coastal lowlands.

Description: The Summit of San Andreas. A red cable car climbs through pine trees to the top of Mount Chiliad, GTA's most iconic peak and the starting point of its most debated mysteries.

Description: Deep in Bone County, San Andreas, Area 69 guards its secrets behind chain link and spotlights. A green UFO beam lights the desert sky above this GTA restricted zone.

Description: Pioneering Tomorrow, Today. Black Mesa Research Facility welcomes visitors to its canyon tram, concrete dam, and cutting-edge science in this Half-Life travel poster.

Description: The Heartland of Blaine County. Red barns, silos, green crop rows, and a pickup truck mark Grapeseed's farming community at the foot of San Andreas's mountain range.

Description: Blaine County's finest correctional institution invites you to check in. Guard towers, barbed wire, and an orange sky greet every new arrival to San Andreas's most inescapable destination.

Description: The Frontier Outpost of New Hanover. A log fort with guard towers and an American flag overlooks the pine-forested approaches to Fort Wallace, the military presence at the edge of civilized territory.

Description: Historic ruins rise from the mist of New Hanover. Ruined brick arches, ivy-choked walls, and a rusty cannon mark Fort Brennand, a ghost of frontier wars swallowed by pine forest.

Description: Explore New Austin from Fort Mercer's adobe battlements. Saguaro cacti line the rocky approaches as wooden gates and desert walls stand guard over the territory.

Description: A West Elizabeth historical site where broken gates, overgrown thistles, and pine forest mark the slow collapse of Fort Riggs. Nature reclaims the old palisade one season at a time.

Description: The End of the Line. A stone prison rises from the fog and water of Sisika Island as a steamboat approaches. RDR's most inescapable destination, surrounded on all sides by Flat Iron Lake.

Description: Tribune Tower has stones from the Parthenon, the Great Wall, and the Berlin Wall embedded in its base. This travel poster puts its Gothic spires where they belong — gold-lit against a Chicago sky.

Description: The Metropolis of Tomorrow. Liberty City's suspension bridge and searchlit skyline define one of GTA's most iconic settings in this sleek travel poster.

Description: The Neon Coast. Ocean Beach, Florida, 1986. A white sports car cruises wet neon-lit streets past art deco hotels and palm trees in this iconic GTA travel poster.

Description: Bask in the Glow. Art deco buildings in pink, mint, and yellow line the beach as a white speedboat cuts through the blue water at Vice City Beach, GTA's sun-soaked 1980s shoreline.

Description: A Curious Destination. This vibrant vintage travel poster features Wonderland's Cheshire Cat grinning from neon-colored trees along a checkered mushroom path. The invitation is open. The cat is already waiting.

Description: By Direct Rail Express, for Eccentric Adventures and Magical Vistas. This gorgeous vintage travel poster features a steam train arriving through a Cheshire Cat smoke cloud, with a hedge maze, castle, playing cards, and teacups awaiting.

Description: A Midnight Dream. This stunning vintage travel poster features a glowing moon wearing the Cheshire Cat's face, with a silhouetted girl and glowing mushrooms below. The cat moved into the moon at some point. Nobody questioned it.

Description: The Happiest Place on Earth. A pink and blue castle catches the gleam of the monorail in this travel poster saluting the magic of Anaheim's iconic theme park.

Description: The Vacation Kingdom of the World. Cinderella Castle, a monorail, and a bridge over blue water mark Walt Disney World in this golden-toned travel poster celebrating Florida's most magical destination.

Description: Groom Lake, Nevada, where the skies are blue, the air is restricted, and a flying saucer circles the salt flats. A vintage-style travel poster for America's most classified destination.

Description: Restricted airspace. A military jet streaks through blue skies above the chain link fence and control tower of GTA's most fortified base, patrolling the frontier of San Andreas.

Description: The grandest private estate in America, rendered as the destination it actually is. Biltmore has welcomed visitors since 1930 and remains one of America's most visited historic homes — a Blue Ridge Mountain chateau that makes every other house feel slightly inadequate.

Description: Unlock the mystery. Keyhouse in Matheson, Massachusetts is the fictional address that Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez filled with magical keys, hidden doors, and every childhood fear made real. This postcard makes it sound like a destination. It sort of is.

Description: Where dreams take flight. The Neverland Ranch travel poster renders Michael Jackson's legendary Santa Ynez estate as the amusement park destination it actually was — complete with a Ferris wheel, a floral clock, and rolling hills that made the whole thing feel slightly impossible.

Description: The home of rock and roll, as the destination it genuinely is. Graceland has been a public landmark since 1982 and draws hundreds of thousands of pilgrims annually — all of them coming to get a little bit closer to Elvis and the life he built on the hill.

Description: Wanted: bold hearts. The Black Pearl's crew was not recruited through conventional means but the results spoke for themselves. This recruitment poster makes joining the cursed crew of the most feared ship in the Caribbean sound like a reasonable career decision. Find them at Tortuga Docks.

Description: Nobody can prove Betsy Ross sewed the first American flag in this house. Her grandson said she did, in 1870. No one alive could contradict him. Philadelphia has been running with the story ever since.