Places cait7911 Wants to Go

A memorial sculpture to heath hens stands on the spot where the last heath hen, Booming Ben, was last seen.

Etchings in a pile of boulders on the Long Island Sound are a monument to vanquished native peoples.

Frank Lloyd Wright built this suburban synagogue late in life, but it stands among his most iconic masterpieces.

A historic home with ties to the abolition and suffrage movements.

What’s a sure fire way to end up in jail in New York in the 1920s? Peddling bad moonshine.

A freighter full of exotic animals ends a harrowing voyage impaled on uncharted rocks in the Boston Harbor.

This old residential building was once the largest flour mill in the world.

Adherence to strict Jewish laws is required to enter this ultra-conservative New York village.

The most powerful laboratory radiation source in the world pulses with 1,000 times the electricity of a lightning bolt.

This backwater graveyard in the Hamptons became a trendy burial spot and posthumous status symbol for famous artists.

On top of a sheet metal business in Juneau stand nearly a dozen charming Wizard of Oz statues.

Meet the "Green Monster" of Monico, Wisconsin.

Where one of Greenpoint's "five black arts" was practiced.

This divisive system of turtle tunnels was built to save animals stranded after a highway split a lake in half.

Built for television, this statue now serves as an unlikely memorial to a fireman who died on 9/11.

An obelisk commemorating Lincoln's role in connecting the coasts.

A forgotten tribute to a South American hero hidden in a cluster of traffic islands.

This university research project is the U.S. government's weed dealer.

World's largest pet casket company brings in up to $5 million per year in revenue.

A little Lego easter egg is hidden underwater in the Boston Tea Party tableau at Miniland.

Born a slave on the Arlington estate, Parks dug the first graves at Arlington National Cemetery, and was buried there, too.

An unusual college football tradition involves burying pieces of sod from competitors' turf, replete with tiny coffins and headstones.

Hidden within a Gulf Coast port city is a wonderfully eclectic museum whose beginnings were housed in a bank window.

The "last holdout of the Confederacy” actually sat at the edge of the Canadian border.