Places mdfirefighter64 Wants to Go

A gem in the small Missouri town where Winston Churchill coined the term "Iron Curtain" and effectively began the Cold War.

This titanic oil company sign is a reminder of the Americana boom of the 1970s and also its commoditization.

This former small town was destroyed not by the motor oil it sprayed the ground with but by the toxic waste that was added.

This wooded grove of beautiful hand-built stone grottos is a hidden gem within a shuttered Franciscan monastery.

Entombed in this strange, white stone hill are the deadly remains of radioactive weapons production.

A frog crossed this road, but whether it made it to the other side remains a mystery.

A collection of soda memorabilia that spans decades.

The location where the iconic movie character declared it was time to go home.

A roadside statue store in rural Minnesota with quirky displays.

Come for the 14-foot-long taxidermy alligator. Stay for the mini costumed gators shooting pool.

Once a slice of Cold War-era military history, this museum is finding its future in the stars.

A museum and gift shop in a small Illinois town commemorates the work of E.C. Segar and the local figures on whom he based his characters.

A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.

On October 26, 1963, a 12-kiloton nuclear device was detonated here in granite some 1,211 feet below the ground surface.

The site of an underground detonation of a megaton nuclear bomb in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

A facility built in 1992 for an underground nuclear test remains in place today.

The contents of this safe survived a 37-kiloton nuclear bomb.

The site where a nuclear bomb was lowered over 8,000 feet underground and detonated as an experiment in natural gas extraction.

The final resting place of the world's first nuclear reactor.

Dedicated to the largest armed uprising in American history since the Civil War.

This bomb shelter-themed bar has barely changed since it opened.

This small town Texas cemetery is said to be the burial site of a UFO pilot who crashed in the 1800s.

A 200-year-old bar is all that remains of one Mississippi River town's rough-and-tumble past.