Places mchaffin Wants to Go

Together they left this world, and together they shall remain for all eternity.

It took more than 20 years and a sharp eye for one man to assemble this quirky collection.

Collection of skeletal systems from the "world's leading supplier of osteological specimens."

The largest land animal skull ever discovered.

A graveyard of bathyspheres and diving bells paints a weirdly accurate account of ocean exploration's rickety history.

A relic of roadside lore and perhaps the first of its kind in North America.

High in the Sacramento Mountains, a facility dedicated to studying the sun.

The largest underground lake in Europe.

The top of a giant mesa, just outside of Amarillo, appears to float in the sky above.

Located along historic Route 66, this former gas station has been restored and converted into a museum filled with vintage motorcycles.

Along the historic Mother Road is an old gas station with a secret counterfeiting past.

Nature's biggest mammal swims in landlocked Oklahoma.

The granite monument is engraved with the image of the talking horse's head coming through a barn door.

The final resting place of the camel who served with the Confederate Army during the Civil War.

A preserved stretch of ancient fossilized trees with an impressive gem collection to boot.