Places rbalevine Wants to Go

This simple home was the beginning of a long journey for the iconic Western film star.

While there are no actual snakes in the history of this crooked road, there may be a number of dead horses.

The notorious couple camped at this site after a bloody shootout with police.

Lured here by the promise of tens of thousands in gold, Jesse James started a quintessentially American trend of robbing trains in-motion.

An eclectic assortment of medieval architecture in a small Iowa town.

A hidden barn-sized rendition of Grant Wood's most famous, and most parodied, painting.

The oldest still-existing mosque in the United States sits in a remote prairie in North Dakota.

The ruins of Theodore Roosevelt's beloved ranch stand in a forgotten corner of a national park named after him.

Where Nor'easters go to die.

A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

The second largest waterfall by volume in the U.S., Willamette Falls is outdone only by Niagara in the amount of water that is pushed northward.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

The decorations were inspired by an unlikely missing treasure.

A giant milk bottle from the 1930s beckons drivers to this diner.

One home in the historic strip hides secret compartments and the ghostly songs of long-gone canaries.

One of the last socialist halls still standing in the United States.

High in the Rockies the third largest statue in the U.S. opens her welcoming arms, and lights up the night sky.

The last physical evidence of the Lewis and Clark trail is one of their autographs etched into this giant rock.

The oldest continuously-operating Chinese restaurant in the United States has been in business since 1911.

If it feels like a speakeasy, that’s because it probably was one.

This century-old confectioner's outlet store was plucked right out of the Seattle World's Fair.

This Kyoto Starbucks takes coffee drinkers back in time.