Places claritysphone Wants to Go

A collection of birdhouses await curious motorists and avian squatters.

An old tree that is the final resting place for many pair of shoes.

Come for the heirloom-corn whiskey, stay for the wood hats.

Outside the Missouri Quilt Museum, this large spool has more than one million yards of thread—and counting.

Often referred to as the largest spring in America.

Step back in time at this 1950s display home, built to showcase once cutting-edge electric amenities.

Small plaque marks the spot, but the true center is located about half a mile away on a private pig farm.

Once a dining hall for boarding school students, this lodge was a popular haunt for nuclear physicists working on the Manhattan Project.

The hallowed remains of a 900-year old Ancestral Pueblo great house.

The ruins of this former mining boomtown once housed over 3,000 people. Now, the population is two.

Apparently, the whole cosmos emanates from this plain concrete tower.

This towering volcanic plug stands out among the dramatic formations that dot this otherworldly desert valley.

It's easy to see why this eclectic architectural wonder has been dubbed the "Spaceship House."

Twenty-seven massive radio antennas on the high plains of New Mexico search for life on other planets.

"I did this all while you were watching TV."

This former sugarcane transport tunnel is now a portal to a lovely beach.

Rusting away on the edge of New Jersey are the remains of a Cold War missile launch site.

A condo complex once housed a boarding school with the 24th U.S. Vice President among its notable alumni.

Memorial to the 137 lives lost on a ship fire, the whole hulk of which washed up on the Asbury Park shore.

In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.

Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.

A hurricane-stricken oak tree has been reborn as a beautiful chainsaw artwork.

A small park on Bourbon Street features life-size bronze statues of New Orleans musicians.

The restaurant keeps a hidden séance room on the second floor and reserves a table for the spirit of the former owner each night.