Places kassiopea30 Wants to Go

At 238 feet above the bottom of a gorge this span is known as the biggest thrill on the road to McCarthy.

Buy your friend a drink or staple some cash to the wall for the next guy at the Salty Dawg Saloon.

During the summer, surfers in Alaska take advantage of this inlet’s unusual water patterns.

Running under an entire mountain, the longest highway tunnel in North America is kept fresh using portal fans and jet fans.

The ruins of a town wiped out by the second-largest earthquake in recorded history.

While not recognized by Guinness, this chocolate waterfall is likely to be the world's largest.

This WWII-era military installation once held an entire city within its walls - now, its walls are falling down.

This small city where almost everyone lives in the same building can only be reached via North America's longest tunnel.

Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.

The ghostly remains of what was once the world's richest copper mine.

This whimsical stacked cabin looks like something out of a children's book.

The wreckage of a deadly bomber plane crash can still be found near an Arizona peak.

These curious caverns have been home to mushrooms, gangsters, and disco.

"Iron Age" creatures fill this huckster's rusted metal sculpture garden.

The center of the only hemisphere that awards visitors with a commemorative coin.

Minnesota's oldest and deepest mine is now an underground physics laboratory.

A fairytale art house in the middle of Wisconsin.

A restaurant and lodge in northern Wisconsin which served as a clandestine hideout for John Dillinger and featured one of the most famous botched FBI raids in history.

The highest point in Wisconsin is capped by two towers that are not as mythic as Tolkien's but provide much better views.

A town filled with hot chocolate, dazzling lights, and lots of Christmas cheer.

Iceland: home to volcanoes, waterfalls and, apparently, Santa?

Minnesota's highest point is a scenic vista marked by a plaque and armies of mosquitoes.

A warning to the weak-kneed: This narrow bridge does its swinging eight stories high.

A half-mile long and three stories high, this bridge over the Des Moines River Valley mimics a descent into a mine shaft.