Places aswope1995 Wants to Go

"Polynesia on the Plains."

This $3 million model train takes you through Chicago, Seattle, and the thousands of miles in between.

A former barn converted into a massive train diorama.

This dig site outside D.C. is known for its exceptionally high density of baby dinosaur fossils and dinosaur eggs.

This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.

A once-stately trading fort is now a ruin slowly being consumed by the sea.

An obscure public service from the U.S. government that redeems burnt, moldy, and soiled old greenbacks.

Plenty of old carney magic still haunts this photogenic amusement park.

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

Fragments of architectural wonders from around the globe are embedded in the newspaper building's walls.

This vast kitty-themed collection illustrates the history of human-cat interaction.

The South African dialect's complex history is immortalized in stone, in one of the world's only monuments dedicated to a language.

Spanking machines, fake goats, and more devices of humiliation are on display in this museum of fraternal initiation devices.

The sign at the garden gate reads: “These Plants Can Kill.”

A Texas cave network is home to some of the world's most spectacular-looking and bizarrely named mineral formations.

This 140-year-old beacon off the Florida Keys marks the wreck of a Navy ship that once roamed the Caribbean hunting pirates.

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

Colin Stokes "got a bit carried away" and built a castle that looks like something out of Tolkien.

In the woods of New Jersey lie the ruins of a munitions village abandoned after World War I and the remnants of a 1920s wooden racetrack.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

This beautifully designed star-shaped fort was the premier defense system of the late 1500s.

South Africa's postal service began with a letter left in a boot beneath this tree.

A record-size collection of wild-haired troll dolls tells the story of the mythical creature's roots in Scandinavian folklore.