Places cruiserbob Wants to Go

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

A tomb with a window to ensure the interred wasn't buried alive.

The first dish to bounce radio signals off the Moon, it was the forerunner to the U.S. Space Program.

A granite monument honors a beloved World War II canine mascot.

What looks like missing grout is actually an old pub's peephole.

The roadway bend where highway painters practice their craft looks like expressionist art.

This museum in a shuttered train station remembers the island's forgotten rail system.

Left by the Devil, an ancient quarry or just plain old erosion, this enigmatic rock pillar rises 28 feet from the hillside.

Large, airy hallways hide within an impenetrable fortress that beckons urban explorers.

This sprawling farm was once a Cold War-era hideaway for the nation's top diplomats.

A 4,000-year-old burial site hides behind a roadside Burger King.

Massive mounds of golden sand look like a desert landscape randomly plopped in an Arctic forest.

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.

This plot of old-growth forest is the largest surviving remnant of New York City's original woodland.

Proto-CIA agents trained with grenades in the sand traps and fired machine guns from the fairways.

The final resting place of the tragic king and queen of the Jazz Age is tucked away in a small Maryland graveyard.

The shelves in the back of this thrift store are devoted to saving, not selling, retro tech.

The U.S. government built the million-pound stack of steel during the Space Race.

This golfball sized platinum iridium cylinder is the official starting point for all national weight calibrations

Three abandoned missile silos are hiding in plain sight behind a suburban development in Maryland.

Electronic inventions that resulted in products and systems we use every day are on display in this labor-of-love museum.

The 320-year-old tree that greeted General Lafayette and rerouted an interstate highway.

This grisly headstone doesn’t seem to be resting in peace.

The crash of this great airship signaled the beginning of the end for dirigibles.