Places Ivan66 Wants to Go

The hill that gave the Massachusett tribe, and later the state, its name.

It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.

Curious cave that stays a cool 56 degrees all year long.

Granite outcropping that the state's tourism bureau doesn't promote because of its delicate ecosystem.

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

This sandstone mansion was the home of two of Oregon's most important pioneers.

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

The magic's in the hole!

Is this the most Portland place ever?

Tens of thousands of tiny birds swarm into one school chimney every fall.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

Surrounded by traditional homes, this Tolkien-esque dwelling stands out on a quiet street in suburban Maryland.

An architect's childhood fantasy treehouse made real.

One man's ambition created this psychedelic log home.

Dance on a hand-hewn log floor padded with bouncy boxcar springs at a saloon built in 1883.

As fallout from an irrigation project, a formerly cottonwood-lined stream is now a sandy, desolate, post-apocalyptic channel lined with weathered stumps and tumbleweeds.

This ramshackle ghost town is comprised of mining-era buildings collected from around the region.

A room hidden behind a swinging shelf in the children's section.

One of New York's best collections of pinball is hidden in a secret bar in the back of this laundromat.

Near Birmingham, England three and a half miles of top-secret tunnels housed a World War II “shadow factory” and a Cold War nuclear bunker.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

An abandoned observatory in the middle of the Illinois prairie.

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.

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