Places cait7911 Wants to Go

Former 1954 Del Mar Train Station now serves signature cocktails and delightful culinary treats, and still operates as a Metro stop.

The Hopi-style structure was built by the man who discovered Desert Hot Springs' famous mineral water.

A museum and doll store featuring a surreal and super sanitized version of where babies come from.

A museum of the dime museum that features weird entertainments of yesteryear, from feejee mermaids to flea circuses.

This tiny church near Sleepy Hollow contains Henri Matisse's last work, a rose window, and nine windows by Marc Chagall.

Granite outcropping that the state's tourism bureau doesn't promote because of its delicate ecosystem.

Divinely-inspired village houses 6,000 dolls, plus strange and lovely outsider art.

This collection started by a Cornell professor once held more than 600 human brain specimens, including the one that belonged to its founder.

The shelves in the back of this thrift store are devoted to saving, not selling, retro tech.

Reverend Franzo Wayne King administers spiritual enlightenment through the music of the jazz legend.

Home to the Titanic Historical Society's collection.

Seattle's super-sized cowboy apparel once belonged to a themed gas station that wrangled in herds of tourists.

Half-sized replica of the Leaning Tower of Pisa built to honor Galileo.

California's oldest wind harp represents a historic piece of America's Danish history.

A popular winter vacation destination for migrating monarch butterflies.

A sculptural commentary on capitalism pokes up from the East River.

This "thrice-cursed" island is allegedly home to Captain Kidd's lost treasure.

Alabama has a fiberglass Stonehenge. With apologies to Spinal Tap, this one is full-size.

These beautiful wineries were at the center of Lake Erie's "grape belt" back when the Midwest dominated American wine production.

One street divides a single town that stands in two U.S. states.

Once an unstoppable source of gold and silver, this town came to a grinding stop when the groundwater proved deadly.

A river with some unusual, and occasionally dangerous, habits.

A Civil War Museum with some notable medical antiques.

Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.