Places nejuum Wants to Go

World's only nuclear reactor operated by liberal arts undergraduates.

An institution that preserves the history of institutionalization.

This arid landscape was once a lush wetland. Today, it's a paleontological site filled with fossilized mammoths, sabertooth cats, and more.

A luxurious doomsday bunker hidden beneath an unassuming Las Vegas home offers the best of subterranean suburbia.

An obscure public service from the U.S. government that redeems burnt, moldy, and soiled old greenbacks.

America's Most Wanted's set resides in this tribute to the history of crime and punishment.

A computer bug so primitive it was an actual insect.

Decades before the scandal, this staircase on the river was a literal "water gate."

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

This modest post office sits on the site of H.H. Holmes' famous murder castle.

A journey begins with a single step, and for many, the road-trip of a lifetime started at this Chicago intersection.

A collection of more than 12,000 shoes, displayed in a building shaped like a shoebox.

These free-roaming horses were once destined to disappear from the land.

Hidden on a cattle ranch in Arizona, this bookstore has been celebrating Southwest literature for more than 40 years.

Sleep where gangsters fell amidst smoke and flame, with nary a bullethole to show for the legendary struggle.

Explore more than 130,000 new and used books in the "world's largest outdoor bookstore."

A diorama lover's dream world.

A kaleidoscope gallery and steampunk emporium named for a pioneering journalist.

A small shop filled with history, mystery, folklore, and more.

An oddity shop filled with loads of bones, skulls, crafting materials, vintage taxidermy, and more.

The heart of Little Saigon in Orange County is also the first and largest Vietnamese shopping center in the U.S.

It's 2 billion years old!

Built hundreds of years ago this downtown iron barrier once protected a much despised king.

Walk over a 150 year old manhole.