Places jackofalltrails Wants to Go

After playing in this house and its gardens as a child, J.M. Barrie credited it for helping inspire the story of Peter Pan.

These wave-cut overhangs on ancient Lake Chewaucan contain some of the oldest evidence of human habitation in North America.

This historic little railroad runs through some of the most beautiful scenery in Germany.

Roughly 17 million letters to Santa have found their way to this Arctic Circle post office.

If you visit Santa's village, you can get your passport stamped to show you crossed into the Arctic Circle.

You thought Santa Claus didn't exist, but it turns out you were wrong.

A Prohibition-era casino once hidden as a palatial tea room.

These strange carved boulders in a forested canyon resemble tiny stone villages.

Its history includes dinosaur fossils, cattle rustlers, Georgia O'Keeffe, and a mythical giant rattlesnake named Vivaron.

An antique narrow gauge railway line still running through the Colorado and New Mexico mountains.

The childhood home of Henry Jones Jr. is now an adventure-themed bed and breakfast.

Founded by members of the Tohono O’odham Nation, this one-room joint's James Beard–winning fry bread is light as a cloud.

A plaque marks a former safe house on the secret route, now hidden next to a McDonald's.

The arboretum whose marshy soil sucked up the dreams of housing developers.

This forgotten beach house built to look like a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece overlooks a hidden beach.

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

The birthplace of Las Vegas is now preserved as a historic and natural area.

These rural ruins are of a Midwestern hotel that was once an elegant spa for the wealthy, then a gangster’s hideaway, and finally a haunted retreat.

The site of one of Japan's very few American occupations during World War II still holds the relics of a roundly disastrous campaign.

A gorgeous gem on the ocean.

This giant Cold War satellite dish has become a symbol of Trinidad's need for sovereignty.

The pits used to load the nuclear bombs onto the aircraft that dropped them over Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II.

Launchpad for the US military’s dead mouse operation to battle millions of snakes.

Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.