Places chrisbierman7684 Wants to Go

The first steel dam in the world and the only one still functional in the United States.

A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.

A memorial to the firefighters who died in an industrial disaster is housed in a small public park.

This golf ball–shaped former desert real estate office now houses a UFO museum.

A dwindling menagerie of anthropomorphic oil derrick animals still dot the barren California landscape.

A collection of colorful dinosaurs hidden in an actual rainforest.

This historic steamboat is scuttled just a few hundred feet from where it was built over a hundred years ago.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

There's something big lurking beneath the surface of this tiny Oregon park.

The first North American landing spot for James Cook on his third voyage of discovery in the Pacific.

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

Where the famed daredevil attempted to launch himself across a canyon in a custom-built rocket.

This tiny chapel next to a highway provides weary travelers a place to rest, pray, or maybe even get married.

This sinkhole is disguised as a pond and named after the man who stumbled upon it.

This recycled wax museum may be the only one that features John Travolta in a Bible scene.

Artifacts fill the old headquarters of the hugely influential political movement to ban alcohol in the United States.

A proto micro-nation sometimes populated by artists, surrounded on all sides by a Utah most barren.

"May the force be with you always."

Jurassic Park—A Still Life.

This museum remembers the tough Mormon trek across America through an intriguing array of artifacts.

Despite sitting firmly in the global cradle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, this Hare Krishna temple is host to one of the largest color festivals outside India.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

Incredible sculptures inspired by obscure passages from the Bible.

A former electrical substation is now home to an eccentric junk art masterpiece.