Places cait7911 Wants to Go

A legendary speakeasy bookstore returns from the brink.

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

The world's longest known cave system.

A tunnel once abandoned now thrives with graffiti art as an off-limits makeshift gallery.

Breathtakingly blue walls shimmer inside the "Glacier Behind the Town."

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.

Hidden in an ordinary Midtown building is a one-room museum dedicated to the greatest escape artist.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

This frequently-photographed waterfall takes only a short hike to visit.

Take a drunken tour inside the world's largest known geode.

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

A breathtaking array of ancient Pueblo structures and artifacts counterintuitively preserved by neglect.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

Carved by a waterfall in a hard-to-reach rock formation, this heart-shaped rock has inspired romantics for decades.

This incredible collection of vintage pinball machines can be played at 25 cents a pop.

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.