Places Pengwn Wants to Go

The U.S. government built the million-pound stack of steel during the Space Race.

The whole world in one water tank.

Bizarre Cavern.

Built by the patriotic residents of Boonsboro in a single day.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

Hundreds of antiquated typewriters and office machinery show the technological evolution of business.

This collection of odd proofs of concept is like taking a walk through the imagination of a Victorian engineer.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

The wooden octagon in which Huckleberry Finn and A Connecticut Yankee were born can still be visited in upstate New York.

"Dark Sky Park" is heaven on Earth for astronomers, one of the rare U.S. locations with no artificial light pollution.

Sail through this subterranean show cave that is home to a legend that would go on to name nearly everything around it.

The historic home still shows the scars from a little run-in with the British in 1813.

Memorial built in 1922 in remembrance of WWI casualties.

Step inside Lucy, the world's largest "elephant."

A bronze monument to the infamous radio broadcast in the real New Jersey town where the fictional Martians crash-landed.

These unassuming lighthouses have seen the first reading of the Pledge of Allegiance, the first wireless transmission, and more than one mystery.

A reservoir of vintage pinball machines and arcade games for the nostalgic and thrill seeking.

The site of one of history's most indelible and horrific tragedies.

A world-class collection of mechanical musical instruments and automata.

A giant light 13 feet high shines near Thomas Edison's old Menlo Park lab.

A local prank turned town icon.

Home of the golf club used by Alan Shepard on the moon, and more artifacts from the sport's history.

Rising out of a clearing in New Jersey's Pine Barrens is an Aztec-inspired monument to the "Lindbergh of Mexico."

American involvement in World War I officially ended in 1921 in New Jersey, three years late and thousands of miles from the battlefield.