Places cait7911 Wants to Go

A proto micro-nation sometimes populated by artists, surrounded on all sides by a Utah most barren.

Pizza joint known for labor-inducing salad dressing.

The ruins of this Alaska gold mine form a gorgeous ghost town.

The first home of the doomed aviator Amelia Earhart.

Rich red almandine gemstones are waiting inside the volcanic rock strewn across this eastern Nevada hillside.

A remote horde of architectural treasures fit for Indiana Jones.

This mysterious series of teeny guerrilla installations sheds a whimsical light on street art in Oakland.

The remnants of a failed socialist commune can still be found just off a California highway.

This fort down the Potomac from Washington, D.C. was once the only defensive fort protecting the capital.

A military museum and library dedicated to the citizen soldier.

Fans of the spicy bright-red sauce can tour where it's made.

This vintage animatronics show is the Vegas version of a walk through the woods.

The largest whiskey stash on the West Coast survived the 1906 fires--but not without heroic effort.

The front yard of an Upper East Side town house hides the last fragment of one of New York's most famous theatres.

Traditional Appalachian dances such as the Georgia Rang Tang and the Shoo-Fly Swing are kept alive at this weekly event.

Civil War Fort on an island in the Boston Harbor.

A celebration of once forgotten materials.

Surprisingly aquamarine waters fill deep lakes formed at the end of the last ice age.

Crumbling remnants of what was once a booming town full of silver.

The overgrown ruins of a once thriving World War I-era copper mine.

A miniature view of the park, caught in time.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

A steampunk wonderland that preserves America's history of industrial innovation.

Haunted Victorian house that inspired a legendary "Ghostbusters" court ruling.