Places cait7911 Wants to Go

This claimant to the title of "smallest church in the 48 states" doubles as an equally tiny, quasi-post office.

Thousands of American timepieces on display in the former clock-making capital of the country.

These abandoned waterworks are crumbling into the Potomac River.

A town honors its legacy of traditional American Indian pipe carving with one gigantic pipe.

Small island science organization offers public the chance to participate in research.

Legendary private island in the Bronx...devoid of rats.

A veteran Disney animator turned his gift for storytelling to a museum devoted to his love of a California city.

After just one epic test blast, this literal loose cannon proved too explosive for combat.

Corn-inthian columns with a uniquely American take on neoclassical architecture.

The remains of a historic ranch house that witnessed the Civil War battle dubbed the “Gettysburg of the West.”

A grotesque Fiji merman dwells within this traditional Dutch-style building.

A promising candidate for the lost rock laid by George Washington was unearthed, but the hunt is still on.

One of the largest pieces of scientific equipment ever carried on a NASA space shuttle sits in a Chicago alley.

The final resting place of a famous 19th-century murder victim whose identity is still a mystery.

This vintage "streetcar boat" lay at the bottom of Lake Minnetonka until the 1980s.

A plaque outside the San Jose airport commemorates the insect's arrival to the West Coast.

Granting the right of way to ships over surface traffic since 1917.

This spot in St. Louis, marked with a simple sign, has seen more pro baseball than just about anywhere else in the world.

Perfect your fly fishing technique on their practice ponds.

This small-town library was the first in the world to be entirely supported by taxation.

The fine fabric handwoven at Biltmore Industries was once coveted around the world.

Erroneously called the world's tallest flagpole, this landmark is devoted to "good neighborliness."

The controversial urban planner who designed Washington, D.C., was buried in Maryland, and can presently be found in Virginia.

This isolated outpost was once the only place to cross the Colorado River for hundreds of miles.