Places cait7911 Wants to Go

The original vault that held the president's remains still stands, empty, not far from where he was finally buried.

A young state senator's deathbed plea to be buried inside a rock resulted in this unusual grave site.

This simple stone memorial remembers a secret, Geneva Convention-defying interrogation base from WWII.

A medieval castle in the middle of rural Texas.

The 25th President's marble casket can be visited in this classical Ohio tomb.

A ghost town originally established and governed solely by Black Americans seeking a place of their own, free from discrimination.

The saga of the massive nut begins and ends in Texas.

On the windswept Dakota plains there is a memorial to circus workers who were struck down by lightning.

This mother-daughter run curiosities shop is a beautifully odd mix of taxidermy and exotic plants.

A maritime museum holding the remains of Blackbeard's pirate ship.

This rare vessel mixed luxury with labor before being converted to a museum and sometimes haunted maze.

A collection of 16,000 antlers crammed beautifully into a small shed.

Made of bronze and wearing a blue gown, this lady sat in the same location in the Yantic Cemetery for more than 119 years.

The highest point in Nevada had to be decided by court order after California tried to claim it as their own.

Smack in the midst of coal country, this collection provides a peoples' history of Appalachian miners' heritage.

This historic Illinois "Muffler Man" has been converted from axe-touting lumberjack to rocket-wielding space ace.

Direct, creative challenge to Mother Nature's winter wrath.

The first of Lancaster's "rural cemeteries."

The victims of a free-floating Japanese bombing during WWII are remembered by this stone monument.

The quirky gift from West Berlin for the 1968 World's Fair still stands in Hemisfair Park.

The uniquely-designed winter home and sculpture studio of Anna and Archer Huntington.

One man's lifelong collection of 10,000 rare steins tells the story of beer drinking from 1350 to today.

The mighty room where the poet spent most of her life is available to rent for an hour or two.

Manhattan and the Bronx have been playing tug-of-war over this former island neighborhood for more than a century.