Places Opinicus Wants to Go

Plans for this peninsula included houses, the United Nations Headquarters, and a nuclear power plant. When none of them worked out, it became an expansive park.

A long-forgotten Victorian swimming hole is still a fun spot for a dip.

The Old Man of the Mountain’s less-famous, but still beloved little brother is said to resemble a leader of the Abenaki tribe.

The summer estate of John Weeks offers dazzling views and a moose captured by Theodore Roosevelt.

A real flying saucer, contracted by the U.S. Air Force.

A circle of giant painted vases in the former pottery capital of the United States.

Inside this wonderland of weird, visitors are treated to a collection ranging from skeletons to haunted artifacts.

Abandoned former poorhouse, bible college, and haunted house in an Ohio hamlet.

A gas station has taken the place of the home of the 19th American President.

See the nearly two-century-old ruins of pre-railroad America at the former site of a lock on the Ohio and Erie Canal.

Artifacts fill the old headquarters of the hugely influential political movement to ban alcohol in the United States.

An abandoned relic of the city's failed experiment with below ground transit.

These beautiful wineries were at the center of Lake Erie's "grape belt" back when the Midwest dominated American wine production.

An unusual, super-sized grocery adventure awaits in an Ohio suburb.

Colorful collection of antique musical oddities.

The longest navigable underground river in the United States is home to countless blind and albino animals.

A local scoured more than 1,000 acres for stone to create his masterpiece.

The remains of this visionary community can still be found much as it was a century ago.

This tiny museum kept in a B&B laundry room holds the death mask of notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd.

This California artist's front yard acts as a gallery for his unique, scrap metal animal sculptures.

First a root beer ad, then a golf course clubhouse, and finally a massive teapot.

This museum is dedicated to the first coast-to-coast highway.

Pennsylvania's own Roswell-style UFO mystery.

A larger-than-life statue of America's favorite sundae marks the place it was invented.