Places Coolplacebrr Wants to Go

For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.

One of the world's most definitive collections of musical instruments, spanning all cultures and historical periods.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

This is not your typical jungle gym.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

The world's longest known cave system.

A psychological self-portrait in the form of a giant, segmented head.

North Carolina's finest examples of Native American pictographs have survived for 5,000 years.

While he no longer has an eatery to give him context, this off-brand Paul Bunyan still holds his giant hot dog with pride.

This rocky spread has been squeezed up directly from the bowels of the earth.

This boulder stays on its mountain thanks to a huge chain and on the map due to local legend.

Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia meet at this point in the Cumberland Gap.

You can climb to the summit of Black Mountain, as long as you sign the waiver.

Daredevil repair workers can worm their way out the access hatch, loop ropes over the apex and rappel down the monument.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

As state highpoints go, this spot is one of the lowest, but for years it was also the hardest to climb.

This evocatively named natural crevasse was created by a torrent of water that smashed right through a granite deposit.

The macabre graffiti spectacle in a quarry in a Massachusetts forest reservation.

Home to drunken tower-climbing goats... seriously.

Maine’s only official memorial to the Underground Railroad.

One of the most scenic falls in Massachusetts has a history of death and grim legend.

A Hawaiian stairway to heaven—that you can't climb.

Climbing Iceland's highest peak on the rim of the Oræfajökull volcano.

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels, scores of people have died on its slopes.