Places jackofalltrails Wants to Go

This rural community has attracted both scientists and techno-refugees due to its federally-mandated lack of technology.

A family-owned store specializing in minerals, geodes, gemstones, and more.

A masked wrestling legend has opened the first U.S. course devoted to a meditative Japanese golf variant.

Since 1956, this quintessentially New England seafood shack has been boiling its lobsters in seawater over wood fires.

You can climb to the summit of Black Mountain, as long as you sign the waiver.

A lawn full of retired spacecraft on display at one of NASA's first research labs.

One of the largest wildlife refuges in the contiguous 48 states, it was instrumental in preserving the pronghorn antelope from extinction.

In the little-known Pine Forest Range in northwestern Nevada, a natural lake of glacial origin.

A public center dedicated to showcasing and conserving the enormous shaggy Poitou donkey.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

A group of college students hauled a desk up a mountain more than 40 years ago. The notebooks inside have become a makeshift time capsule.

A remote trail traverses the little-known Gearhart Mountains of southern Oregon.

A prehistoric rock shelter that's literally in someone's backyard.

In the middle of a suburban Denver neighborhood is a cave that once provided solace for a prominent Ute chief and his family.

Have a heavy metal Christmas at this bizarre Turkish-American restaurant.

This little-known wall in Southampton stands as one of the most unique and personal monuments to D-Day.

A museum of anything and everything Stooge.

Once a mortuary that held the remains of Buffalo Bill, this Denver hotspot is now a death-fixated restaurant.

This Aztec structure remained hidden until the demolition of a supermarket exposed the lost temple.

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

The next-door homes of two very different musicians, George Frideric Handel and Jimi Hendrix.

The preserved home of the first settler of "the most German town in Brazil."

US-50 in Nevada is known as "the Loneliest Road in America," but this earlier iteration of the route is even lonelier.

The highest concentration of petroglyph sites in Gold Butte National Monument, plus an improbable early 20th-century dam.