Places nikisb Wants to Go

Small teepee-like houses built for TB patients have become sheds, studios, and bus stops around Colorado Springs.

Thousands of unmarked, sunken graves in a pauper's cemetery.

This notorious dive has been serving up both kinds of spirits since 1879.

These decaying bridges 1,000 feet high are a reminder of the skill it took to cross the Colorado Rockies by rail.

This open-air reconstruction of an Old West town, a cross between a theme park and a museum, provides an immersive historical experience.

The highest paved road in North America winds its way up Mount Blue Sky in Colorado to an altitude of 14,130 feet above sea level.

Final resting place of Typhoid Mary.

This large stone residence served as a field hospital during the Battle of Gettysburg between stints as a tavern.

The scene of the largest surrender of Confederate troops at the end of the American Civil War.

A historic freight system that found the true gold rush is in tourism.

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

At the most northwestern point of the contiguous United States lies a trail leading through an ancient forest to stunning cliff-side vistas and massive oceanside caves.

A historic hotel with many stories of haunted activity.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

A circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

The largest retailer of seashells in the world.

Former utopian colony based on the belief that the universe exists in a hollow sphere.

Allegedly haunted by Walt Disney himself, this inconspicuous lamp is always kept lit in his honor.

A grave dedicated to the pioneers who settled California.

Murder, searching for gold, and being cut in half—the memorial statue of Daniel O. McCarthy and the Pioneers of '49

At this local mall, visitors are ushered through a 1940s jail exhibit.

Believe it or not, this is the final resting place of the man who created the Odditorium.

The man who voiced Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, and more has a headstone reading, "That's all, folks!"

Outside San Francisco lies a small clown cemetery and memorial.