Places Caroline Thrift Wants to Go

This Cold War siren is one off the last of its kind still standing with its immensely powerful original horn.

Seattle's own bad art museum located inside Cafe Racer.

The tale of a strong-willed woman who stood her ground when the commercial world came rumbling in.

Granting the right of way to ships over surface traffic since 1917.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

A house filled to the brim with oddities and curiosities.

Couple's personal collection of pinball machines turned public pinball museum.

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

A college in rural Kansas founded to prepare the country for an impending World War III.

One of the longest water bridges in the world was built over a supposedly haunted swamp in Louisiana.

Once an ambitious nature spa, these forest ruins now provide a serene monument to failure.

This sinkhole was created by a tragic industrial accident and continues to ravage the surrounding landscape.

This museum chronicles the history of a leprosy quarantine hospital that then became a refuge.

Twenty churches beautifully painted by 19th-century Czech and German immigrants in Texas.

An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.

A miscalculation turns a very shallow freshwater lake into a very deep saltwater lake.

A popular swimming hole that hides one of America's most deadly diving spots.

Together they left this world, and together they shall remain for all eternity.

The body of an unidentified woman, visible through a glass coffin, was discovered by accident.

Built by prisoners of war, the largest small-scale model ever built includes eight miles of tiny streams that now sit abandoned.

A decaying concrete oil tanker served as a disposal location for bootleg hootch.

The show pony of cave systems, Fantastic Caverns manages to live up to its name.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

This memorial marks the devastating day that Texas City was destroyed in a daisy chain of exploding ships.