Places ipinguping Wants to Go

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

Wild lights and sound effects turn a walk through some caves into an eye-popping 1960s tourist attraction.

A museum dedicated exclusively to aircraft used in the military.

No matter what it might seem like on film, most scenes filmed on a plane are filmed at this LA studio.

A retro walk through the history of the tube.

The stone marker that Mason and Dixon placed at the eastern end of the famous north-south border they surveyed.

The elevator that makes it possible to fly American flags in bulk over the U.S. Capitol

An obscure public service from the U.S. government that redeems burnt, moldy, and soiled old greenbacks.

A hoard of sky catalogs, astrophysical journals, even the works of Galileo and Copernicus.

The actual model from the original "Star Trek" series is now on display at the National Air and Space Museum.

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

This beach-side arcade is believed to be the oldest penny arcade in America.

The sole remaining outpost of a once-thriving South Carolina chain still sells “pic-a-nic” baskets.

This too-low North Carolina railroad trestle is still a notorious big rig executioner.

A train station that was abandoned by the coal industry and converted into a cocktail bar. Now it’s home to the local visitor bureau.

Board a mine car and descend the #190 slope 300 feet underground into the Clark Vein of coal.

A railroad tunnel that, upon its completion, was considered one of the engineering marvels of the modern world.

Herbert Hoover's "Brown House" rural presidential retreat was a PR disaster amid the start of the Great Depression.

A bunker "with enough U.S. currency to replenish the cash supply east of the Mississippi" in the event of nuclear war now protects nitrate film.

These ruins are all that's left of the former Alabama State Capitol.

The first space rock known to have struck a human.

A Cold War site complete with rusty structures, hiking trails, and beautiful views.

Space program, pneumatics and more, bits and pieces, for movie sets or the common man.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.