Places rkurchak Wants to Go

The permanent home of Elektro, the celebrity automaton of the 1939 World's Fair.

Behind a modern brick exterior lies the oldest continuously-operating lunch-car diner in the United States.

This gallery of prehistoric red ochre art lines the wall of a scenic segment in Utah's San Rafael Swell.

The largest burial mound in the United States holds the remains of prehistoric West Virginians.

The first statue of Christ sleeping on a bench in the United States confused its affluent parish.

This museum started as a collection of Manhattan Projects and continues to add exhibits as they are declassified.

This famous Nevada gold mine, once a hotbed of Wild West shenanigans, is now open for tours.

A hoard of sky catalogs, astrophysical journals, even the works of Galileo and Copernicus.

The world's oldest and largest museum of mass transit vehicles.

An unrealized dream to wirelessly electrify the entire Earth.

Home of the International Space Hall of Fame.

A mountaintop space observatory that is certified dark.

One-time winter retreats of prolific inventor Thomas Edison and his friend Henry Ford.

At this Minnesota state park you can easily wade across the source of the mighty Mississippi.

A county library in rural Ohio houses one of the finest mineral collections in the world.

Annual celebration commemorating the 1965 sighting of strange lights in the town.

The Midwest's reigning king of surplus stores is full of nothing you need and everything you want.

A wonderful display of arts and crafts handmade by local artisans in the Southern Appalachians.

A record-size collection of wild-haired troll dolls tells the story of the mythical creature's roots in Scandinavian folklore.

The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.

Pennsylvanian mass grave and possibly mass murder.

The only home of the famous French impressionist painter open to the public is now a museum and bed and breakfast.

The site of the first "historically true" UFO encounter in the U.S.

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