Places cait7911 Wants to Go

Detroit’s downtown castle is one of the oldest structures in the city.

Failed state-supported institution meant to rehabilitate students with intellectual disabilities.

A mysterious air force base built to resemble a Long Island fishing village.

An abandoned 1920s-era stretch of cabins now overshadowed by the 66 Motel.

Nuclear reactor created the plutonium used on Nagasaki.

Santa Monica's oldest restaurant, decorated with set pieces from the Mutiny on the Bounty.

Former laboratory of radical psychiatrist Wilhelm Reich.

The world's largest collection of mechanical puzzles is a cornucopia of analog bafflers.

An overlooked monument to the celebrity gangster who helped put the sin in Sin City.

Almost half-way between the Equator and North Pole.

A one-of-a-kind sundial at the Very Large Array honors a radio astronomy pioneer, incorporating the original piers from his breakthrough radio telescope.

The first artificial white water river course in North America cuts right through an Indiana city.

A historic arena where the Beatles played their first concert in the U.S.

Haunted boulder in a front yard with a witch painted on it.

You can walk through the first Boeing Air Force One, which famously carried JFK's casket from Dallas back to D.C.

In memory of the 110 victims of ValuJet Flight 592 that crashed in the Everglades.

This Wild West attraction is alive with glitching automatons.

Sweet or salty, super hot or mixed into beer, this is the holy land for all things licorice.

In the back of a nondescript sports bar is a museum-worthy mural by legendary cartoonists.

This Birdsill Holly fire hydrant is the remnant of a very different type of hydration innovation.

Thousands of unique minerals, including some of the most impressive fluorite crystals in the world.

The Vermont grave of a 4,000-year-old mummy prince.

Golden and naked, the figure that was once the highest point in New York is all that remains of the second Madison Square Garden.

The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.