Places Annie Oortman Wants to Go

The world's largest collection of mechanical puzzles is a cornucopia of analog bafflers.

This memorial to the Mercury Seven astronaut stands at the site of his former elementary school.

This schoolhouse for Black American children is one of the oldest remaining in southeastern Ohio.

The history of whiskey and all of its boozy glory, from Colonial days to modern American cocktail culture.

A theme park featuring a replica of Noah's Ark built to the measurements specified in the Bible.

Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia meet at this point in the Cumberland Gap.

This modern castle sat empty for decades before a fire inspired its builders to complete its luxury halls.

This former tuberculosis research hospital endeavored to cure the dreaded disease with fresh air and positive attitudes.

The "mysteries" of this quintessential roadside oddity were almost destroyed by neglect but were saved by fans of kitschy wonder.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

In the bowels of a 19th-century brewery lurks a fine-dining restaurant offering an array of themed feasts.

In this cemetery stands the country's first public crematorium.

This splendid Versailles-inspired mansion has the largest French-style formal gardens in North America.

This collection of odd proofs of concept is like taking a walk through the imagination of a Victorian engineer.

This set of three large, volcanic hot springs is a favorite haunt for intrepid divers.

A shady solar power system that couldn't hold up to the harsh desert conditions.

This lava formation earned its whimsical name from the log-like formation of it stones.

A dazzling display of red rocks weathered into spires and hoodoos.

These headstones and a few stone foundations are all that remain of a once-booming mining town.

An empty mine that some believe will suddenly be filled with fortune and treasures at the end of the world.

In the heart of Brigham Young's promised land sits a festering plot of industrial ruin that has been claimed by society's outcasts.

Kay Andrews's recipe was so good, her family immortalized it in stone.

This huge, disused viaduct is now a crumbling concrete underworld of covered in years of graffiti.

Pennsylvania's own Roswell-style UFO mystery.