Places jrhspam Wants to Go

The only building in Louisville (hopefully) that contains two ancient holy skeletons.

Once one of the most polluted caves in America, now an environmental success story and a museum dedicated to caves.

Marking the spot where a conquistador gave up his search for the fabled Seven Cities of Gold.

The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.

Hiding behind a grocery store is a spectacular cavern carved as part of an old limestone quarry.

A likeness of Da Vinci's mysterious painting smiles at passersby from the side of a barn.

The Old Mill shown in the opening credits of “Gone With the Wind” is actually fairly new, and was never a mill at all.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

A large stone map of Arkansas awaits visitors to its highest point.

An unlikely Transcendental Meditation haven in the American Heartland built around the ancient Vedic principles of balance and harmony.

Home to a collection of artifacts and specimens from one of the world's preeminent geologists

Part of a worldwide art project, this mysterious semicircle of concrete shapes holds the pieces of a larger story.

A creek tumbles over a series of step-like rocks to create this scenic water feature.

These falls, sometimes called the "Niagara of the West," still put on a good show at the right time of year.

This highest peak in Idaho can only be reached by traversing a formation known as "Chicken-Out Ridge."

This set of hot springs also comes with fantastic views.

A petroglyph map of the upper Snake River carved by prehistoric hunter-gatherers.

Largest gathering of hobos in the country has been meeting annually since 1900.

An out-of-the-way wildlife haven with a rich and storied past of harboring thousands of fugitive slaves, or "Maroons" during the mid 1800s.

A superbly preserved example of Georgian residential architecture that was once home to one of the founders of Alexandria, Virginia.

This church is known as "The Home Church of George Washington and George Mason."

This estate on the banks of the James River was home to a Founding Father, two presidents, a famous bugle melody, and what some say was the actual first Thanksgiving.

This isn't your average roadway—it's actually a National Park and a transportation pioneer.

The final resting place of an unidentified revolutionary soldier sits behind a Virginia church.