Places emiliejayne Wants to Go

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

This little-known collection holds everything from "Dracula" notes, to the manuscript of "Ulysses," to the forged works of Shakespeare.

This Colorado hiking trail provides a small gold mine of abandoned gold mines.

This Wall Street bar was once a hub of revolutionary activity where Washington famously bid farewell to his troops.

The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.

The sci-fi villain is a little-known inhabitant of the U.S. capital's largest cathedral.

An astounding collection of medical specimens, including bits of President Lincoln.

Prison made famous by The Shawshank Redemption has been out of commission since 1990.

Despite being one of the most photographed vistas in the Rockies these twin peaks are rightfully known as the "Deadly Bells."

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

Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

Ruins of a Carnegie family mansion on Cumberland Island.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

Made of giant chains and hung with shackles, this iron cross honors those unknowns who perished under American slavery.

The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.

Arrr! The most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world... matey.

A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.

"Dark Sky Park" is heaven on Earth for astronomers, one of the rare U.S. locations with no artificial light pollution.

Her final resting place was intended to be modest and private, but the power of her popularity continues to draw visitors.