Places jackofalltrails Wants to Go

The heroic sled dog of the 1925 serum run is preserved in taxidermy.

Berkeley Springs State Park boasts the nation's only monument commemorating presidential bathing.

A rehabilitation center for confiscated, orphaned, and abandoned chimpanzees.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

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

This massive home was constructed by one of the greatest conservationists in Colorado history.

Explore a wealth of fossils in one of the most prolific dig sites in North America.

Alberta's Pipestone Creek Bonebed is one of the densest fossil sites in the world. This nearby museum showcases some of the best finds from its "river of death."

The first curved wooden bridge in Canada was built as part of the Alaska-Canada Highway.

The northernmost truck stop in the United States.

A bronze of the man in all his sinewy glory celebrates his longtime connection to the Ohio city.

Three playfully immersive mini golf courses let you travel alongside your ball to the cup at this facility, which has been around since the 1950s.

After sitting abandoned for decades, this historic mine is now the only publicly accessible chalk room and pillar mine in North America.

This beautiful ancient site is dotted with perforated sandstone pillars considered sacred by some Native American groups.

Much of the spectacular canyon followed over a century ago by the Los Angeles & Salt Lake railroad is now accessible to cars.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

This natural marble cave is one of only five national monuments in Oregon.

A forensic lab dedicated to fighting crimes against wildlife.

The world's last remaining store of its kind.

More than 25 fully functional scale replicas of famous lighthouses dot the shores of Lake Havasu.

One of the oldest and tallest lighthouses still in service on Lake Michigan.

A Wisconsin kitsch palace from the 1930s lives its second life in 21st-century Brooklyn.

The oldest certified bowling alley in the United States is in the basement of this century-old bar.

Collecting 700 years of mechanical death-dealing, the NRA's sprawling gun museum is a revealing testament to the American obsession with armament.