Places BlueGranite1 Wants to Go

A tunnel with windows, so you don't miss out on the impressive views.

A futuristic hovertrain is parked unceremoniously alongside a nondescript road.

Experience a charming 1930s version of "infotainment."

The second-largest gold nugget in existence, displayed in a Las Vegas casino conveniently named the Golden Nugget.

A quintet of history museums make this Virginia graveyard as much a resting place for funereal history as it is for people.

A secret fresh water spring for animals and humans alike hidden along the most famous road in the United States.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

This beautiful ancient site is dotted with perforated sandstone pillars considered sacred by some Native American groups.

A century-old cabin off of Highway 30 touts an unusual construction material: dinosaur bones.

Natural catch-basin rocks covered in thousands of drawings spanning many millennia.

More than 5,000 contemporary and "historic" mustards from around the world.

Otherworldly rock formations and ancient fossils abound in this unique stretch of Nebraska badlands.

This unique historical monument features large concrete spheres designed to resemble fallen stars.

There's a crumbling old mansion inside the Smithsonian National Zoo.

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

The only natural lake in the world that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

Take a steam-powered ride straight out of the past on this Appalachian rail line.

This massive geographical sculpture is so subtle, it's possible to pass by it without noticing.

This stone is a marker of one millionaire's personal vendetta against gravity.

An impressive collection of over 50,000 minerals including moon rock from the Apollo 17 mission.

The tomb of Increase Mather and his son Cotton, influential colonial ministers obsessed with the occult.

The largest ancient burial mound in Ohio.

Developers built a Walmart around one family's plot and constructed a mausoleum in the parking lot.

This erect, phallic geological spire wasn't always named so domestically.