Places cait7911 Wants to Go

The first high-tech company in the valley that actually worked with silicon devices.

Standing in for the first ship to navigate the Northwest Passage.

These impressively detailed battle scenes depict the violence and tragedy of war in miniature.

One of the first schools in the U.S. to admit students without regard to race or gender.

A Yale University president wears full samurai garb in one of America’s oldest cemeteries.

Open day and night, a church with three pews and Bibles.

A mysterious statue of a leather jacket-clad rebel leans coolly on an odd yellow clock.

This historic Pittsburgh tennis complex is a rare example of natural red clay courts.

A place for ship-lovers to watch the passage of freighters traversing the Great Lakes while learning about their history.

So many migrating birds roost on the bridge, it has a special summer speed limit.

A remnant of the 19th-century dream to discourage people from drinking booze by offering them water.

This glass-stain Mary attracted thousands of pilgrims until her head was shattered by a vandal with a slingshot.

For nearly a year, General Ulysses S. Grant was based here during the American Civil War.

The remains of the first saint from Alaska in the Russian Orthodox Church.

Giant papier mache hog sits on private property.

The same security that protects our nukes accidentally protected a gentle herd of antelope.

The dress young Pierce wore prior to his breeching ceremony in the early 1800s is now on display for all to see.

Built in 1895, this bed and breakfast was once a hospital that served an early 1900s Gold Rush boomtown.

Play everything you see at a museum dedicated to a town's historic organ industry.

Lake Champlain Bridge, the recently demolished and rebuilt bridge where they filmed "What Lies Beneath".

After his presidency, George Washington planned to live only a few blocks from the Capitol building.

The return of something once considered a basic part of life.

Compensation for the destruction of a historic shipyard.

The only tennis court that falls under the jurisdiction of the central bank.