Places magratnj Wants to Go

This soda factory is one of the last in America to use real cane sugar despite the protestations of Dr Pepper.

Natural catch-basin rocks covered in thousands of drawings spanning many millennia.

The pit stop from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" now serves beef and pork barbecue, not people.

Twenty churches beautifully painted by 19th-century Czech and German immigrants in Texas.

There is an unmarked red button hidden over Houston's Buffalo Bayou that is just begging to pushed...

An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

A historic town sits upon the site of a long-lost 18th-century trading community.

Amazingly, this old machine within the Resorts Casino still functions.

Dinosaurs, magic, and wonder are hidden amid the forests of Allaire State Park.

The way these carnivorous dinosaurs are posed is an homage to a classic work of paleoart.

A bronze plaque at an intersection in Hoboken marks the place where the game of baseball first took shape.

The final resting place of many of New Jersey's most famous residents, including U.S. history's most in-vogue antagonist, Aaron Burr.

The boulder on which Alexander Hamilton laid his head after a deadly duel can still be visited on the New Jersey coast.

An Iron Age hillfort rooted in Arthurian legend was made famous by musician Peter Gabriel.

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

This prehistoric figurine is the oldest known realistic depiction of a human face.

This pair of running lions engraved on animal bone is one of the earliest artistic depictions of big cats.

A gorge full of caverns where early humans lived alongside cave hyenas, giant mammoths and wooly rhinoceroses.