Places pamelajoon Wants to Go

This state park was once an important Native American cermonial center.

Of course the guy with the first patent for an ice machine lived in Florida.

A 1950s eccentric's vision of Eden preserved as a hiking trail.

Georgia may have been on his mind, but this memorial in Florida shows that Greenville was really Ray Charles's childhood home.

This historic oak tree has been around for over 300 years and might last for 300 more so long as it doesn't fall apart first.

A beautifully detailed Victorian house designed to be easy to flee, built by a man haunted by fire.

This centuries-old hotel hides a network of secret cellars and passages once used by smugglers.

More than 25 fully functional scale replicas of famous lighthouses dot the shores of Lake Havasu.

Although built to generate electricity for Marylanders, this dam has become an all-you-can-eat buffet for American bald eagles.

When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

A bust of the first president welcomes visitors to the only town in America called George, Washington.

This twice-relocated "Usonian" home is among the smallest built by master architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

A stranded woman lived alone on this remote island for 18 years, inspiring the great children's novel "Island of the Blue Dolphins."

This impeccably preserved farmstead is a time capsule of a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist's life.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

The easternmost town in Alaska can only be accessed from Canada.

Inside this McDonald's you can dine on your Big Mac and fries next to a 2,500-year-old Roman wall.

The final resting place of one of the most sensational guitar players of all time was created only after his father got the rights to his music.

Overlooking Puget Sound sits a garden with a Buddhist prayer wheel and an elaborate labyrinth.

This historical swimming pool near Miami is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

For six months of the year, three giant mirrors direct a pool of sunshine onto this otherwise occluded town.

This ancient walled garden turns fog into food.

This cliff-face port is considered a masterpiece of mining engineering.

Thomas Jefferson's estate is home to hundreds of varieties of historic fruits and vegetables.