Places Ckorear512 Wants to Go

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

This tiny old water tower once doubled as a makeshift jail.

A 20-foot-tall egg painted in a traditional Czech patterns by the Czech community in Wilson, Kansas.

This 41,000-acre wetland complex is the largest marsh in the interior of the United States.

This commemorative stone was erected near the first Scout campsite.

The history of this famed tree ranges from an 18th-century highway robber, to the Scout Association.

Hundreds of samples of "Devil's Rope" hide in a defunct vintage elevator.

The oldest bar in Missouri is hidden within a limestone brewery cellar more than 50 feet underground.