Places BlueGranite1 Wants to Go

Scattered around Atlanta are little doors with big charm.

Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.

The winding route passes through an enclosed alleyway, two tunnels, and leads to the White House basement.

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

Robots, lasers, and whoopee cushions, oh my!

This 29-ton granite ball spins around at the slightest touch thanks to a scientific phenomenon.

Lady Liberty's first beacon of enlightenment is now displayed in a museum near the statue.

Though strikingly beautiful, Seattle's other railway station is now largely forgotten.

This large midwestern cavern features impressive rock formations and an underground waterfall.

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

These Pre-Columbian petroglyphs contain representations of birds, deer, hunters, and even some early Native flute players.

A lovely aquatic park built by a one-armed Civil War veteran who made a fortune from lotuses.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

This spectacular track has run continuously since 1882.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

A cavernous three-story, 43,800-square-foot basement that was forgotten about for 60 years.

A monument in Washington D.C. marks the spot from which all other roads were supposed to stem.

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.

A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.

A science teacher's dream.

A wondrous old library overlooking the nation's capital.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

A whimsical village of unique treehouses resides in a Washington forest.