Places ERuler39 Wants to Go

The highest point in Wisconsin is capped by two towers that are not as mythic as Tolkien's but provide much better views.

Literally a million fascinating cartographic artifacts are held in this sprawling university collection.

A giant, Gilded Age mansion that once belonged to the beer baron of Milwaukee.

"Iron Age" creatures fill this huckster's rusted metal sculpture garden.

A metal ring in the middle of the road marks the exact spot where the Soviet satellite crash-landed in 1962.

A place to eat for on-the-run agents and espionage enthusiasts.

The center of the only hemisphere that awards visitors with a commemorative coin.

Vikings and Evangelicals have both had a hand in this replica medieval church.

This cave holds a surprisingly colorful variety of geological oddities.

These molds for fiberglass statues have formed an eerie, accidental sculpture park.

Robots, lasers, and whoopee cushions, oh my!

These Great Lakes sea caves accessible by boat in the summer turn into temples of ice reachable by foot in the winter.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

The highest point in Florida is still the lowest high point in the country.

No one knows how or why this painting appeared to produce crystallized tears.

This facility, now a museum, once housed and trained U.S. Army Air Force pilots who flew during the Allied invasion of Normandy.

Step into the past and experience what life was once like in the Sunshine State.

The former desk of Fire Chief Joseph "Bum" Farto is all that remains after his mysterious disappearance following a drug conviction.

The only known working replica of the world's first self-propelled vehicle.

These mysterious ruins are hidden amid this sleepy coastal city.

History is hiding at the Morean Center for Clay.

The "worst battleship ever built" is enjoying a grand second act, submerged 30 feet in the Gulf of Mexico.

Though it's unclear why it's there, the lifelike sculpture of the giant lizard is oddly charming.

Bronze footprints mark the path where a civil rights leader tried to march in peaceful protest before being knocked unconscious.