Places Michael K Wants to Go

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

Rare recess caves fill this unbelievably beautiful Ohio park.

Just a few miles from downtown Atlanta is a trail covered in a crazy collection of outsider art.

A popular oddity on display in a stately building, offering a symbolic commentary.

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

The former home of the army detachment that captured Geronimo.

The maximum security facility was once thought to have "the bloodiest 47 acres in America."

One of the oldest anatomical theaters in the U.S. still in use was once the site of an infamous cadaver riot.

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

A cave interior in the shape of the ancient rhinoceros, created by lava cooling around its carcass.

Final resting places of a husband and wife who became famous for their claims of extraterrestrial abduction.

University of New Hampshire holds the documentation and artifacts of local alien abductees.

A gas station and a state sign commemorating the most famous claims of extraterrestrial abduction.

Covered in tens of thousands of coats of paint, this Indiana attraction holds a world record all its own.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

Cryptid lake monster honored with its own monument.

This abandoned train tunnel has been the subject of countless ghost stories for years.

Two insane asylum bodies embalmed by an amateur.

The world's largest rotating world.

This historical swimming pool near Miami is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

A unique collection of diving equipment spanning antiquity to the present day.

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