Places lilyroulstone Wants to Go

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

Landmark dedicated to the plight of the American Indian in the 21st century.

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

Lemon Grove, California is known for its giant lemon...and mummified bodies.

The world’s oldest active sailing ship.

One of the few remaining carousels built by master amusement park carver Charles I.D. Looff.

These two K-9 memorials commemorate the sister cities of Edinburgh and San Diego.

Hidden inside this Arizona fast food franchise is an in-depth exhibit on the famed WWII counterintelligence program.

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

This arch was featured prominently in the film.

This balancing rock is one of Utah's most unusual geological formations.

A breathtaking array of ancient Pueblo structures and artifacts counterintuitively preserved by neglect.

Most of this “research national monument” still lies buried beneath the earth.

The last remnant of a tree that helped prove to the world that sequoias are real—and they’re spectacular.

Where the writer penned his famous story about a jumping frog.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

A monument to a survivor of harsh pioneer life, frostbite, and primitive surgery.

This Art Deco masterpiece has stood in for some of the most famous buildings in comic book history.

This rare example of Vancouver's Victorian past was the home of one of the city's first bookbinders.

The rusting remains are visible sticking out of the waters of the Delaware Bay.

A dark, dank room in subterranean Manhattan was the site of a ghastly murder.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

Ghost hunters have fueled up at this diner for more than a century.