Places cait7911 Wants to Go

Once a flowing stream and where the USS Monitor, the world's first ironclad, was built and launched.

Sites connected to a woman born on a ship and spared by a pirate.

The old fire tower is one of the last of its kind in the United States.

The South's nickname was supposedly born at a former bank in New Orleans' French Quarter.

A 19th-century architectural wonder designed by the "father of the skyscraper."

View the California coastline (and the home of Barbara Streisand) inch by inch with stunning, government-sanctioned aerial photography.

This recently uncovered ad for Lindsay's run at Mayor in 1965 had been hiding for decades underneath a billboard.

Disks are rolled out onto the south lawn to absorb the impact of Marine One's wheels like giant coffee coasters.

A drawbridge named for a potentially intersex Polish national who fought alongside George Washington during the American Revolution, and an example of "Pulaski Red".

This sculpture gallery is home to magnificent beasts made of scrap metal and found objects.

Snack on a partially gestated duck egg.

The headquarters of the prestigious World Food Prize celebrates the heroes in the fight against hunger, has no cafeteria.

At a site that has witnessed many significant events, according to the fictional Kcymaerxthaere, it is best known as the place of lunar discovery.

The final resting place of the first American-born professional magician.

The remnants of sheer survival in Dublin's monastery district.

Of course the guy with the first patent for an ice machine lived in Florida.

The founder of a utopian religious community based on the Golden Rule laid his son to rest on this grassy hill.

Wading through a small lagoon reveals a secret, wild stretch of pristine beach.

This sidewalk monument honors more than 50 civil rights activists who helped change the face of America.

This midcentury chapel is a bold architectural statement and a symbol of Indiana's Lutheran heritage.

A tree full of wishes and footwear.

A circle of giant painted vases in the former pottery capital of the United States.

A former atom smasher turned into an art gallery.

This Alaska library may be the only one in the country that allows you to check out pieces of taxidermy.