Places Nathan Boddy Wants to Go

An underground wonderland in Iowa.

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

An explosion of natural color known as "the river that ran away from paradise."

A daily replay of the experiment that proved the rotation of the Earth.

Alexander Hamilton’s creation caused quite a bit of controversy.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

A clone-tree in Washington Square Park sprung from seeds that went to the Moon and back.

It is the only marker for one of the most famous hate crimes in American history. There are no other memorials for him in the entire state.

Who said a biker bar is no place for a taxidermy squirrel collection?

Buy a token from the liquor store and you can make this beast spew flames on command.

A lasting remnant of the London Blitz.

Designed as a reminder of one of the darkest moments in Austrian history.

Six miles off the coast of Key West, a former military transport ship is now one of the largest artificial reefs in the world.

On the hills of Bay Ridge stands a house straight out of a fairy tale.

Archaeological sites and great food inside the island's largest mangrove forest.

The smallest covered bridge in Maryland.

This Gold Rush ghost town was once the subject of a territorial dispute between California and Nevada.

Once a major stop on the Hejaz Railway, this desert station (complete with steam locomotive) has been abandoned for decades.

The steepest tramway in North America provides stunning views of the out-of-the-way Wallowa Mountains in northeastern Oregon.

The scene of a legendary hunt is displayed on this building's facade.

A few dilapidated structures are all that remain of this deserted former silver mining town.

These century-old beehive-shaped kilns were built to produce charcoal for nearby mines.

Derelict buildings are all that remain of a complex at the site of one of the worst mining disasters in Montana history.

Native Americans built this circle of stones, which was used to predict astronomical events.