Places Annie Oortman Wants to Go

3/4-scale model of the White House in Atlanta, Georgia.

A stockpile of childhood lunch pails turned collectibles.

Where school buses go to die and be reborn as whimsical works of art.

The remains of one of America's first radiation testing grounds still rest ominously in a Georgia forest.

The world's first time capsule lies behind a welded steel door in Atlanta.

One of the world's largest automobile junkyards is a unique landscape of metal and moss.

This intricate Hindu temple is the largest of its kind outside of India itself and was constructed like a giant puzzle.

Scattered around Atlanta are little doors with big charm.

One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.

Crumbling ruins mark the site of a couple's grisly murder in the woods.

The beauty of urban decay, hiding some dark secrets.

A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.

Tour the sci-fi-esque reality of governmental disease management.

Neal Cassady may still have an open tab at one of Denver’s oldest watering holes.

The remnants of the base where US Army troops learned how to fight in extreme conditions.

A coal fire has been burning underground here since 1896.

A unique arch graces the Dolores River Canyon near the Hanging Flume.

The decaying ruins of a failed mining company’s water diversion project cling to the side of a desert canyon.

The start of the group that straightened the teeth of a nation.

A tribute to Loveland’s most famous sweethearts, who helped spread cupid’s message to millions.

Once a lonely sentinel on the edge of the Great Plains, this rebuilt trading fort offers a glimpse of life on the Santa Fe Trail.

Two creeks flow out of either end of this canyon in opposite directions.

This small piece of railroad history sits behind the parking lot of a chain grocery store.

This old train trestle and collapsed tunnel once allowed the railroad to negotiate the steep slopes of the Colorado Rockies.