Places Jeepjock Wants to Go

This childhood throwback has hundreds of arcade games and pinball machines to transport you back in time.

One of the few places where you can explore a 1918 paddlewheel steamboat from stem to stern.

This petite park lets visitors see and touch examples of fossilized dinosaur tracks.

This sparsely populated town offers a look back in time.

“Live hard, ride fast, eat pizza” at this joint filled with Evel Knievel memorabilia.

The century-old remains of an abandoned farm town in eastern Washington.

This quirky museum has a collection of more than 15,000 bobblehead dolls.

A roadside attraction filled with an astounding array of gloriously wacky vehicles.

An otherworldly, fossil-rich cobble beach holds Viking graves, cairns, and other remains.

Get up close and personal with these majestic fish.

Legend says a witch conjured the world's third largest whirlpool to protect Scotland from a nasty pirate.

When in Idaho, sleep in a giant potato.

This old selenite mine is dotted with tiny crystals that make it shimmer like it's covered in glitter.

Through the decades, Black music stars have performed at this historic hub for music and the arts.

Buffalo's abandoned concrete grain elevators are getting a second life.

Hidden inside one of the world's most well-visited zoos is a secret plaque promising eternal life.

The largest glacial erratic boulder on Cape Cod.

A cemetery full of touching tombstones from a community of railroad workers, uranium miners, and Cold War missile launchers.

This Catskills museum preserves stumps from the earliest known fossil forest on Earth.

How often do you find security guards patrolling tropical beaches to protect rare sea turtles from poachers? 

Within the former ghost town of Cisco is a carefully restored tiny town with one resident and its own art residency.

Thanks to its curved shape, this incredibly durable dam "whispers" to visitors.

This former mining hub holds a surprising abundance of undisturbed relics from the Old West.

According to the legend, this strikingly beautiful hill has miraculous healing powers.