Places LewisWasHere Wants to Go

Scale replica of China's ancient terracotta tomb warriors and Forbidden City are the side project of an eccentric millionaire.

In the late 1990s, a mechanic and fan bought this iconic sportscar back from the dead.

This hollowed salt dome is the largest oil storage facility in the world, hoarding 250 million barrels of crude oil.

This huge repository of local history housed in an old J.C.Penney's is home to the largest model train set in Southeast Texas.

A decaying concrete oil tanker served as a disposal location for bootleg hootch.

This memorial marks the devastating day that Texas City was destroyed in a daisy chain of exploding ships.

Tucked away down this Baytown alley exists a one-of-a-kind art exhibit of technicolor umbrellas.

This eight-mile stretch of road gets its name from a local legend about a lost soul searching for his head.

World's largest precision optical instrument used to detect Einstein's elusive gravity waves.

The world's only underwater laboratory where "aquanauts" study oceanic life.

This 140-year-old beacon off the Florida Keys marks the wreck of a Navy ship that once roamed the Caribbean hunting pirates.

In Florida, these naughty monkeys live on their own mini-monkey Alcatraz.

This salad has two key ingredients: hearts of palm and green ice cream.

Come for the boats, stay to explore the intriguing assortment of art.

The "worst battleship ever built" is enjoying a grand second act, submerged 30 feet in the Gulf of Mexico.

Though nicknamed the “Russian Freighter,” this ship was actually sunk off the coast of Pensacola by the U.S. government in a top-secret operation.

The 44,000-ton aircraft carrier was purposely sunk to create an artificial reef teeming with life.

This historic general store still operates much as it did in the late 1800s.

The terrified face of Henry Wells is etched on this garret window.

The first space rock known to have struck a human.

These ruins are all that's left of the former Alabama State Capitol.

One person’s lost luggage is another person’s treasure.

This papier-mâché diorama celebrates an unusual landmark: the brightly-colored runoff from a local sock factory.

This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.