Places cait7911 Wants to Go

In the mid-19th century, an eight-sided house was the latest fad.

The U.S. Navy’s preposterously detailed mini battleship took 77,000 hours to complete.

The large rock formation where the Shawnee prophet Tenskwatawa stood and encouraged his warriors during the Battle of Tippecanoe.

An 18-mile-long tunnel for sewage waste will soon wind within the bowels of Washington, D.C.

The faint remains of a Polish news empire still linger.

This high-perched pachyderm marks the memory of not one, but two elephants gunned down in small New England towns.

The origin of the Nixon tapes is rooted in technological incompetence as much as secrecy.

One of the largest Marian shrines on the West Coast stands rather unexpectedly in Silicon Valley.

On the shores of Lake Kalamazoo, a plaque marks a fictional event where an island nation ran aground.

One of two giant blue cockerel statues erected with an intentional double meaning.

A daybeacon pyramid is about all that's left of this island that is said to have sunk due to a pirate's curse.

This 90-year-old building is home to possibly the most New Englandy social club in existence.

The final resting place of the songwriter who penned “Take Me Out To The Ball Game."

A glimpse into the "Logging Capital of the World" at a time when there was far more forest and far less machinery.

A living antique aviation museum in the historic town of Red Hook, New York.

The Decoy Capital of the World.

A rim-made reptile in North Dakota.

A 19th-century politician who died after walking home in a blizzard is honored with this Manhattan statue.

All that remains of one of the Civil War's more deadly POW camps is a simple flagstone.

Retribution for death of infamous mob boss Franie Yale was a case of mistaken identity.

An unexpected canine grave atop a mountain.

Where most of the world's flypaper was made.

The giant stump of the once towering cottonwood where Ute people held tribal meetings.

This experiment in the lifespan of seeds will take a century before it is complete.