Places cait7911 Wants to Go

This golfball sized platinum iridium cylinder is the official starting point for all national weight calibrations

An unusually designed bridge from the 1920s was built to withstand the tides and winds of Maine.

A sculpture of 18 beautiful clay mandalas on display at Warm Mineral Springs in Florida sends a message of world peace.

An old train trestle re-imagined as an Egyptian obelisk.

The massive, original Colgate Clock is mounted on a defunct factory building that was once a prison.

This historic Civil War church has survived over a century of racial turmoil but still stands as a reminder of the town's roots.

Curiously, this large sporting goods store features 14 wax representations of American presidents.

Steinbeck's old stomping grounds, immortalized in Cannery Row.

This museum holds a fully-functional replica of the "Turtle," the first American submarine ever built.

A bronze plaque at an intersection in Hoboken marks the place where the game of baseball first took shape.

Political debates in a fabulous Pasadena castle.

Overshadowed by quilts, the artistry of these patterned textiles went underappreciated for too long.

The humble field where the first Major League Baseball game was played.

A circus of light and sound forms a sensory ode to an iconic train that will never pass through town again.

A small token of gratitude from freezing cold journalists who were given a warm haven while covering JFK's inauguration.

Each step is a mere four inches tall, said to be measured by the stride of a woman wearing a hobble skirt.

Home of the physician who set the leg of John Wilkes Booth after the Lincoln assassination.

Row, row, row your pumpkin quickly down the stream.

A working monastery hidden away in Brooklyn once abutted the location of a former inebriate's home.

As communication goes completely wireless, this Maine museum remembers all the wires that got us to this point.

A disastrous shipwreck and a tragic love story.

This simple badlands butte is the highest point in North Dakota and may be the only high point to charge admission.

A tiny wilderness cemetery commemorates the deadliest episode of the Klondike Gold Rush.

A pharmacy built in the shape of a mortar and pestle, now resembles a fancy cocktail.