Places cait7911 Wants to Go

A rare tour of a commercial jet assembly plant, held inside one of the largest buildings in the world.

The Cape Cod house that whaling built.

The petroleum industry brings you the joys of hydrocarbons and largest collection of antique oil rigs in the world.

A bronze sculpture honors the 12 black students who attended the first integrated public high school in the segregated South.

A muscular Art Deco monument represents the struggle between regulators and unbridled markets.

A tiny plaque hidden miles into the Washington wilderness is all that remains to honor a shipwreck that left 18 people dead.

Bizarre and inspired combination store selling only two items: tires and bibles.

Surrounded by lonely toys, this Massachusetts gravestone marks the final resting place of six children who were murdered by poverty.

This classic red schoolhouse is said to have been where Mary and her little lamb went to school.

Military and first responders can test their skills in a Foggy Bottom mock station down in Georgia.

You can spend the night as an honorary lighthouse keeper in this quaint, historic beacon.

3,200-square-foot mural inside Dartmouth Library depicts the history of America with images of human sacrifice, ancient gods, and other unspeakable terrors.

Thousands of majestic trumpeter swans fill this park, sounding distinctly like a certain brass instrument.

You don't want to get caught in this trap--or do you?

The Tallahassee Airport serves over half a million passengers a year and is home to some permanent residents too.

The first permanent memorial to a unique secret weapon of World War II.

Rising out of miles of farmland, these buttes are sometimes called the world's smallest mountain range.

For nearly 200 years the same family has harvested ice from a small pond in eastern Maine.

A hidden grotto on the grounds of the Kane County Government Center.

The highest point in Iowa, while not that impressive to mountain states, has earned its own monuments.

A rock outcropping left by a glacier that made itself useful throughout the centuries.

Formerly frequented by Hollywood stars and now open for tours.

Undone by Prohibition, this abandoned brewery-turned-flour mill is now ready for its third act.

A decommissioned Naval base now rents itself out for people who want to blow stuff up.