Places engelhardus Wants to Go

A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

This ancient cave is home to a museum, bar, and is filled with fluorescent minerals.

The fictional star of "Breaking Bad" is memorialized with a real-life gravestone in his hometown.

A wedding chapel, vintage clothing shop, and bar all under one roof.

Walk through the actual strap iron cells and solitary chambers of Arizona Territory’s first prison.

This architectural triumph is the only Frank Lloyd Wright house in Alabama.

Hidden behind Lincoln's head is a chamber containing enamel plates documenting American history, sealed in a teakwood box in a titanium vault.

The U.S. Supreme Court's secret Cold War relocation facility in the mountains of North Carolina.

A stockpile of childhood lunch pails turned collectibles.

A mysterious collection of stones stand outside a small New England town.

A living snapshot of a different time in America is preserved and maintained by a community of volunteers.

The statues commemorate the legendary mass killing of escaped circus monkeys.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.

A piece of the iconic wall found an unlikely new home in a Vegas bathroom.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

The world's largest occupied bat houses hold hundreds of thousands of flying mammals.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

At this research institute, the chile is king.

This 47-foot chile pepper sculpture welcomes Scoville heat unit obsessed tourists to the Big Chile Inn.

Wee (and not so wee) footprints that insects and reptiles of the Paleozoic Era left behind.

"Not too many people can say they've had a nuclear bomb dropped on them, not too many would want to." — Walter Gregg.