Places cait7911 Wants to Go

This blue behemoth of a bear is a colorful homage to Brown University's mascot.

The American rainmaker and a burst dam.

Thousands of acres of beautiful wild landscape in the Great Basin.

The obelisk meant to mark the founding father's grave at Monticello is actually on the University of Missouri campus.

This missionary's legacy looms large over the Upper Peninsula of Michigan—literally.

This landmark building is now a vibrant performing arts space with musical acts from around the world.

The Pentagon is so large that it was planned like a city, complete with internal highway infrastructure.

After miraculously surviving a giant flood, the 19th-century nut tree and its offspring are protected with their own tiny park.

One of the world's premier laboratories for hydraulic engineering research takes full advantage of the water's power.

The most radioactive spot in New York City can also fix your muffler.

The location of one of the first private Catholic schools in the country, providing a valuable sanctuary during the tumultuous period when Protestant and Catholic students were at odds.

This memorial honors those who served on Gallops Island Radio Training Station during the second World War.

The final resting place of Captain William Becknell, the Old West frontiersman who forged the Santa Fe Trail.

During World War II the Thorp building was guarded by the OSS, FBI, and US Navy because of the top-secret bombsight being produced there.

A desperate final message left by a POW on the run serves as a memorial for himself and the 97 that died with him.

Mennes invented the tags we all place annually upon our license plates, and his story is told frankly and in full upon his headstone.

Ironically this massive termite is the mascot for a company that is acclaimed for killing his kind.

Red Hook's massive public pool, built by Robert Moses.

The decorations were inspired by an unlikely missing treasure.

One nutty businessman’s unique tribute to an ancient tool.

Indiana's shrine to the sport that has become a hallmark of their culture.

Thousands of people walk over this fantastic work of art every day, but how many notice it?

Funded entirely by volunteers and donors this military memorial features a tank with a comedy line on its barrel.

An Adirondacks museum housed in the former studio of Marcella Sembrich, the 19th century opera star most famous for her role of Mimi in "La Boheme."