Places alaskanmoss Wants to Go

A beautiful piece of history in a very remote area that allowed ranchers to move their herds.

An old adobe structure first built in the 1890s is a desert watering hole plastered with dollar bills and odd West Texas finds.

The largest interactive exhibition in the U.S. exploring human history through the lens of power, punishment, and psychology.

A small but elegant example of early highway engineering in the American Southwest.

An 1857 brewery on the banks Mississippi River, now just a ruin with no roof, no windows and only one corner of the building still standing.

The “capital city of the Kingdom of Skullbonia” features a general store and a mural spotlighting the town’s bareknuckle boxers.

Behold the uncanny sight of the Golden Arches—rendered in black.

After emancipation, former slaves paved the roads of their newly built settlement with these bricks.

A sandstone canyon wilderness with a history of outlaws, mysterious disappearances, and a UFO encounter.

At this bayside marina, enormous wild tarpon jump out of the water to snatch fish from visitors’ hands.

Part research station, part time capsule, part aquatic fever dream.

A botanical hideaway sits inside the ruins of a half-built Civil War fort.

Thousands of signed dollar bills turn a simple tavern into a living record of travelers’ comings and goings.

A beautiful bronze sculpture by Danish designer Bjorn Wiinblad, who is indelibly tied to Dallas.

This is the last surviving Bollman truss bridge in the world.

Site of the longest gun battle in FBI history.

This was the first ever National Lakeshore, established in 1966.

Blink and you’ll miss it—the tiniest street in America packs a lot of charm into just a few steps.

Bent but not broken, this massive tree has stood in the garden for over a century.

Stand inside the dark interior of an historic redwood tree that once was used as a general's headquarters.

One of the few Civil War monuments to honor a specific enlisted soldier.

Picture yourself in history with this working collection of vintage photobooths.

A modest Alabama recording studio where some of music’s biggest voices found their sound.

Learn about the neighborhood founded by the last people ever brought to the United States by the Atlantic Slave Trade, still inhabited by their descendants.