Places rustbeltjessie Wants to Go

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

It's not your typical library, memorial, or book store.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

Art from the latest counter-culture; kids who dye their hair blue and believe the future will be a post-apocalyptic water world.

Oldest building in California still in use.

An eclectic trailer park retreat in the middle of the California desert.

The farthest you can be in the contiguous U.S. from a McDonald's location.

The remote outlaw hideout of Jesse James, Butch Cassidy, and the Sundance Kid.

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

Bar full of oddities, specimens, artifacts and homages to the great dime museums of the past.

Remnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mall.

Site of a former hidden treehouse in New Orleans.

Taxidermy, Cigar Store Indians, A Model of a New York Tenement and Delicious Draft Root Beer.

Home of St. Urho, the fictional patron saint of Finland.

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

The lynching and burial site of America's first train robbers.

The world's oldest operating jazz club has been in operation since May 1934.

Astounding collection of coin-operated games and automata.

This zombie-themed restaurant stands out in the heart of corn country.

Ancient petroglyphs discovered only after a massive fire swept across Michigan in the 1880s.

Largest gathering of hobos in the country has been meeting annually since 1900.

Enter the Forest of the Elves.

A stone face watches over the river.