Places Annie Oortman Wants to Go

This ancient octopus-like tree was saved from destruction thanks to shady reporting.

Florida castle built with aluminum printing plates.

This ancient sinkhole-turned-healing-pool is a treasure trove of archeological discoveries and may even be the Fountain of Youth.

12,000 sq. ft. museum tracing erotic art from antiquity to modern times.

The ruins of this antebellum sugar plantation are the end result of a Seminole attack during the Florida Wars of 1836.

Arrr! The most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world... matey.

An abandoned vacation home spent a decade taking on legends. It's now taking on water.

A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

A waterfall 600 ft. inside a mountain, once the bane of gold miners, is now a spectacle of nature.

An impressive collection of farm equipment and other artifacts from life on the prairie.

A monument to the forgotten French explorers and their landmark expedition.

The lowest point in South Dakota and the source of the Minnesota River.

An entire city block built completely out of petrified wood.

This monument remembers one of the manliest men of the frontier who fought a grizzly before dragging himself 200 miles to safety.

A striking sculpture built to honor the women of the Lakota and Dakota Nations.

This Wild West attraction is alive with glitching automatons.

Thanks to a loophole in property ownership, this alleyway has become a cacophonous street gallery.

The ravine where Jesse James supposedly performed an impossible jump to evade capture.

This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.

A roadside collection of over-sized iron creations that are a bit more macabre than most.

A sprawling museum located on the former site of the Orphan Girl Mine.

Mining caused an asbestos emergency in this small town.

A working ranch doubles as a sustainable hub for world-renowned classical music and large-scale sculptures.