Places cait7911 Wants to Go

A museum of unusual collections, mini-towns, and a half-dog, half-alligator.

A monument to the love people have for their pets.

These tourist trap caverns are said to be the former home of a legendary Pennsylvania Hermit.

A bike being "eaten" by a tree is the real Vashon legend behind popular children's book, "Red Ranger Came Calling."

The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.

Home to drunken tower-climbing goats... seriously.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

Once a bastion of its community, this gothic cathedral now stands as a haunting ruin.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

This Oregon farm is dedicated to teaching people the professional art of tree climbing.

North Carolina's finest examples of Native American pictographs have survived for 5,000 years.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

A mysterious light floating in the trees of Arkansas may be a piezoelectric effect.

A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.

Miniature art that tells an enormous story.

A New England ghost town features a trail of boulders etched with intriguing life lessons.

The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.

A fake town founded by Western movie stars is now becoming a hip desert community.

Long the exclusive domain of birds and vagabonds, this little-known Central Park peninsula is open to the public once more.

Years of archaeology, just chillin' by the water cooler.

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

Mexican food and folk art.

An urban laboratory.

This head-spinningly bizarre Depression-era art cave is wall-to-wall quartz and Jesus.