Places cait7911 Wants to Go

Beautiful stained glass depictions of the history of human flight fill this surprising chapel.

In a grove of fast growing walnut trees outside Paris, Illinois, a marker shares the story of a fictional road building culture.

A small island hides in plain sight on Austin's Lady Bird Lake.

A mistaken marker makes an erroneous claim along the historic Old Divide Road.

A peg-legged tightrope walker did not reveal his name as he was dying, and so he was buried as “Rope Walker."

The site of one of Japan's very few American occupations during World War II still holds the relics of a roundly disastrous campaign.

This roadside attraction has been serving out its fair share of hearty folklore and chaos since 1858.

University City's quirkiest resident lives in a park named after its first.

The only free-standing, vertical sundial in the US was keeping standard time before it was even invented.

The American Home, Re-imagined.

The site of William McKinley's tragic assassination is only marked by an underwhelming boulder.

Need a hardcopy of the 50-title Code of Federal Regulations? This is the place.

Obscure and obsolete publications are given new life as works of art.

A bomb shelter and some fireplaces are all that remain of the house Fred Roberts tried so hard to keep standing.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

Bison, America's national mammal, are staging a slow comeback in Ohio's prairie parkland.

The likeness of the Baltimore music icon was unveiled in time for the anniversary of his Senate hearings on music censorship.

This observatory comes complete with three separate telescopes and a dedicated community of amateur and expert astronomers.

The oldest still-existing mosque in the United States sits in a remote prairie in North Dakota.

This impressive Boston holy house is the American mecca for Christian scientists.

This replica small town lets visitors take a stroll through the story of progress in the U.S. via thousands of Americana artifacts.

Where the Model T was made and the assembly line was invented.

A monument marks the beginning of the longest north-south road in the United States.

This historic park site contains the last remnants of a once bustling canal system.