Places pnorloff Wants to Go

Priceless space junk on display in front of a local Dairy Queen.

Near-constant high winds deform the trees on Spruce Knob, the highest point in West Virginia.

The former hotel where Tesla invented the radio.

A replica viking ship from the Chicago World's Fair is still in dry dock in an Illinois park.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

A table rock formation that has been intriguing West Virginians for years.

When this test site was abandoned, they didn't even bother to take the rocket with them.

An indoor miniature village and labor of love for Laurence Geiringer, a model railroad enthusiast.

Hikers can still stroll beneath the long conveyer of this abandoned mining facility hidden in a West Virginia river gorge.

In which a local geological marvel becomes a quaint roadside attraction.

Walk behind a 50-meter-high waterfall.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

Twenty-seven massive radio antennas on the high plains of New Mexico search for life on other planets.

Quirky castle designed by the American actor best known for portraying Sherlock Holmes on stage.

The "World's Largest Underground Business Complex," a 55,000,000-square-foot city underneath Missouri.

When the Austin Dam failed it destroyed much of Austin...and then it failed again.

Once strictly off-limits, this lower level housing curious and priceless vehicles of the Petersen Automotive Museum is now open to the public.

A museum dedicated to a sea that should have never been.

These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.

An abandoned asylum incorporated into a college campus.

Robots, lasers, and whoopee cushions, oh my!

An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.

A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.

Home to three historic ships from the age of Vikings.