Places briang1975 Wants to Go

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

The remains of an early 1900s dude ranch that operated until the 1970s.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

The highest paved road in North America winds its way up Mount Blue Sky in Colorado to an altitude of 14,130 feet above sea level.

A preserved 18th century homestead in Western Pennsylvania marks the spot where the Whiskey Rebellion began.

Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.

The narrow mountain road that carves a path between Florence and Victor is tied to ghost towns and ghost stories.

A Nevada mining boomtown that ran out of silver and luck.

The site of an underground detonation of a megaton nuclear bomb in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

This massive crater in the middle of nowhere was used to train astronauts for moon landings.

This stuffed pigeon of war had the very serious name "John Silver" until he lost a leg in battle.

Inside houses a vast collection of military aircraft and missiles spanning the ages.

You can walk through the first Boeing Air Force One, which famously carried JFK's casket from Dallas back to D.C.

A real flying saucer, contracted by the U.S. Air Force.