Places dym75 Wants to Go

A small obelisk commemorates the launch site of the world's first liquid-fueled rocket.

A rock outcropping left by a glacier that made itself useful throughout the centuries.

The hero of the women's suffrage movement birth home is now a museum dedicated to her legacy.

The schoolhouse where Jesse Merwin, the inspiration for the "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" character, once taught.

The highest point in Connecticut was incorrectly memorialized before surveyors discovered the actual spot.

The mansion home of author Edith Wharton.

Naturally formed white marble arch housed in an abandoned marble quarry from the 1800s.

An old trolley bridge was converted into a breathtaking garden bursting with colorful flowers.

Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.

Home to the Titanic Historical Society's collection.

A cable-suspension footbridge that hangs high above the Mill River.

This lush 12-acre site was once named the finest Japanese garden in North America.

This house renovated by Frank Lloyd Wright was the centerpiece of a lavish 20th-century estate.

The dream home of an iconoclastic renaissance man still stands as a monument to his domestically mundane vision.

A collection of 11 million buttons illustrates the human toll of the Holocaust.

An abandoned observatory in the middle of the Illinois prairie.

This folk art wall claims to be the world's one and only memorial to the bygone age of hippies.

Today this bizarre rooftop phone booth seems like a piece of kitsch but it was once used to spot disastrous storms.

The famous author's birthplace is preserved in a town that he once described as narrow-minded.

A plaque marks a former safe house on the secret route, now hidden next to a McDonald's.

Quirky water tower advertises the long-gone Brooks Tomato Products Co.

Oversized statues are just the tip of this nostalgic Americana roadside attraction.

Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.

The final resting place of the world's first nuclear reactor.