Places rkurchak Wants to Go

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

This lovely university observatory continues to sit abandoned since its potential savior was sent to jail for fraud.

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

This Arizona observatory is famous for investigations into Martian life, and as the place humans first spotted Pluto.

A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.

A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.

This golf ball–shaped former desert real estate office now houses a UFO museum.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

Maine's oldest diner also happens to win acclaim for its elevated comfort food.

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

Located just behind a quiet residential neighborhood, this is ground zero for the Salem witchcraft hysteria of 1692.

This surprising gem is a world-class archeological museum hidden at the University of Chicago.

A hot dog stand where the heads are just as hot as the dogs.

This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.

Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.

In the remote high desert of New Mexico, a strange array of poles beckon fury from above.

Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

Inside this wonderland of weird, visitors are treated to a collection ranging from skeletons to haunted artifacts.

Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.

This small town Texas cemetery is said to be the burial site of a UFO pilot who crashed in the 1800s.

True to its name, this bouncy walkway may be the world’s smallest suspension bridge.