Places Ckorear512 Wants to Go

A botanical hideaway sits inside the ruins of a half-built Civil War fort.

A hangar at Marathon Key’s airport is now an ode to aviation history.

Thousands of signed dollar bills turn a simple tavern into a living record of travelers’ comings and goings.

A beautiful bronze sculpture by Danish designer Bjorn Wiinblad, who is indelibly tied to Dallas.

Site of the longest gun battle in FBI history.

Beginning as a white quartz gravel mine in the early 20th century, it was turned into a Christian-themed tunnel to present the core messages of the faith.

From this scenic rockface, you can still see the paths Western pioneers followed.

A fur trade museum in western Nebraska stands on the reconstructed footprint of a 19th-century trading post.

At this leafy estate, one man’s passion for trees grew into Arbor Day.

A small-town Nebraska museum is home to thousands of handmade clown dolls.

The only perennial creek in the Mojave Preserve is also the site of an 1860s fort.

Make a joyful noise with these contrabass chimes.

Every spring brings a colorful tribute to this wizardly actor's most famous role.

A historic office and commercial building located in the heart of downtown San Francisco.

Steel rings embedded in rock enable hikers to ascend a picturesque slot canyon in the Mojave Preserve.

A time capsule of life in Southern Florida in the 1930s.

An Outer Banks museum devoted to the thousands of shipwrecks resting off North Carolina’s coast.

The last remaining houses of a bygone world immortalized by John Steinbeck in his novel “Cannery Row.”

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

This 35-foot troll in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, was made by the world’s leading recycling artist as part of a global fairytale.

Eternal resting place of the grave robber and murderer who served as inspiration for many of cinema’s famous madmen.

Berkeley Springs State Park boasts the nation's only monument commemorating presidential bathing.

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

Defaced since the early 80s, this bridge has become local icon to the metalheads and residents of the city.