Places cait7911 Wants to Go

A giant light 13 feet high shines near Thomas Edison's old Menlo Park lab.

The attic and basement house two museums stuffed with oddities like swallowed spoon handles and a shrunken head.

These subterranean storage areas hold emergency water reserves.

An Alaska livestock farm devotes itself to harvesting wool from creatures that once ran with mammoths and sabertooth tigers.

An abandoned, decaying sculpture garden built by an eccentric physician in the 1920s now looks more like a forgotten cemetery.

A second generation sun-powered marvel lights up the night.

A roadside spring pooling in an old bathtub where anyone can stop and sip.

A diminutive plaque recalls the treetop sniper who almost killed Abe Lincoln.

This rare polygonal meeting house is rumored to be built in a circle so that the devil has nowhere to hide.

The world's largest collection of materials relating to lesbian history is housed in a Brooklyn townhouse.

Located in a beautifully restored ice house, this museum is the result of decades of hard work and devotion to the craft of plumbing.

Wheels of chrome by the thousands adorn this California Historical Landmark.

Museum dedicated to the preservation of surf culture.

This forlorn park is the result of a failed investment turned tax dodge.

This was once the home of Gahan's Saloon, Denver's most storied speakeasy.

An auroral research program that superheats the ionosphere.

There's a piece of New York City transportation history hidden in plain sight at a Manhattan subway stop.

A burial ground of rusting metal grave markers.

Destroyed by flood waters, prison now serves as a training ground for armed forces.

Historic town settled in the 19th century because of its convenient location along a popular coal transport route.

Maybe the only missile installed in a public park, this Cold War leftover was one of the first to carry a nuclear warhead.

A classic American barn that was the home of a classic American television star.

Tirelessly maintained by a Wisconsin man named JFK.

Once home to over 8,000 exiled Hawaiians suffering from Hansen's Disease.