Places Nicole Lee Wants to Go

It may look like no more than a full-scale model, but every part of this full Space Shuttle stack had a working role in aviation history.

What else would you call a playground hidden in Alabama's oldest and largest cemetery?

A subterranean haunt where wine and homemade biscottis are always on the menu.

A floating museum that was sunk by a flood and left to rot in the tides.

The obelisk meant to mark the founding father's grave at Monticello is actually on the University of Missouri campus.

This lovely little pond is named after the hundreds of soldiers' corpses that were rolled into the waters during the French-Indian War.

The great American road trip, but smaller.

Once known as the Illinois Asylum for the Incurable Insane.

This rare female version of the Muffler Man has its clothes removed each summer to signal the start of pool season.

Tiny treasures, giant murals, and strange sculptures decorate the windows and doors of this abandoned building.

A collection of art crafted from various hardware tools.

Steel remnants of a bridge make up a unique sculpture along the banks of the Illinois River.

A massive bur oak tree believed to be some 500 years old is the centerpiece of this quiet urban greenspace.

The world's third-largest scale model of the planets.

A collection of 11 million buttons illustrates the human toll of the Holocaust.

These Depression-era WPA sculptures have made a couple of stops over the years.

The ill-fated plan to reroute the Mississippi so that Union ships could bypass Confederate fortifications on the river bend.

A free museum that memorializes the deadliest river flood in American history, and the civil engineering efforts to tame the Mississippi River.

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

The final resting place of New England's last "vampire."

New England's tallest light house stands on an island with a history of cannibalism and death.

This former mining town was named the most toxic town in America.

A mysterious, abandoned building rotting on the Brooklyn waterfront.

The first American home of the isolated, egalitarian religion has a trove of Shaker architecture and artifacts.