Places butson Wants to Go

This dramatic rail curve was once the target of a failed Nazi attack.

One of New Jersey's oldest surviving buildings still bears the mark of our former British overlords.

Rising out of a clearing in New Jersey's Pine Barrens is an Aztec-inspired monument to the "Lindbergh of Mexico."

This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.

A failed piece of Orientalism has become the proud symbol of a community.

A winding, cliffside stretch of road overlooking the Delaware River.

This stone gatehouse was once the entrance to a historic mountain resort, and it had a cameo in a cheesy cult horror movie.

Vintage cars and motorcycles race for glory in a throwback motorsport celebration on the Jersey shore.

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.

A historic covered bridge is but one example of an oddly prevalent American urban legend.

A planned settlement in Pennsylvania once housed the aristocratic refugees of the French Revolution.

The boulder on which Alexander Hamilton laid his head after a deadly duel can still be visited on the New Jersey coast.

A former zoo turned public park, where visitors can hang out in the old animal cages.

Industrial ruin decimated this tiny New England company town in a fashion no one saw coming… and even fewer remember today.

This natural rock "church" might not be a proper chapel but that doesn't mean it's not beautiful.

A moving memorial to the fallen and missing from WWI trenches.

There is an unmarked red button hidden over Houston's Buffalo Bayou that is just begging to pushed...

The last of Philadelphia's wood-paved streets is now a landmark of terrible engineering.

Site of the first official transatlantic wireless communications.

This Canadian monument to the man who invented the telephone allows visitors to get up close and personal with the artifacts of his life.

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

The wooden octagon in which Huckleberry Finn and A Connecticut Yankee were born can still be visited in upstate New York.

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

The house where Rudyard Kipling wrote 'The Jungle Book' is also the location of the first tennis court in Vermont.