Places Ryan Haupt Wants to Go

In the middle of a suburban Denver neighborhood is a cave that once provided solace for a prominent Ute chief and his family.

The site of the one of the most deadly train wrecks in American history.

Over a dozen Native American earth mounds dating back over 2,000 years dot this Tennessee archaeological park.

The small cave that housed Tennessee's "first citizen."

A delightful park featuring homemade scale replicas of dinosaurs, tucked away in the Tennessee mountains.

This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

Home of an evil witch famous within southern folklore.

Better known as the "Body Farm," this unique research facility has been studying how human bodies break down since the 1980s.

The charming collection celebrates a small Ohio village's Finnish roots.

One of the last few period-correct, hand-operated canal locks in the country.

The crash of this great airship signaled the beginning of the end for dirigibles.

An obsolete, vanishing traffic device warns Cincinnati drivers away from middle-of-the-road obstructions.

You can walk through the first Boeing Air Force One, which famously carried JFK's casket from Dallas back to D.C.

A slab of sandstone covered with mysterious 1,000-year-old rock carvings from a vanished North American culture.

In this relatively flat state the highest point is an honored place.

This abandoned bridge to nowhere stands secluded in the woods of a Cleveland suburb.

A wonderful and easily overlooked museum tucked in Ohio's Burke Lakefront Airport.

A memorial for an outsider theorist who believed that the planet is actually hollow.

Mussolini gave Cincinnati a bronze statue of Romulus and Remus suckling at a wolf's teats.

A favorite of Amelia Earhart, ranking among those rare bridges that can be crossed without changing sides of the river.

The largest ancient burial mound in Ohio.

The heroic sled dog of the 1925 serum run is preserved in taxidermy.

A real flying saucer, contracted by the U.S. Air Force.