Places rybarrios81 Wants to Go

One of the steepest streets in the United States makes an intriguing challenge for cyclists.

This spot in St. Louis, marked with a simple sign, has seen more pro baseball than just about anywhere else in the world.

An abandoned factory along the Mississippi coated by a giant mural.

This historic motel standing at the "crossroads of America" offers a radio in every room and was saved by local protesters.

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

A mysterious light of unknown origin on the backroads of Missouri.

This museum offers an actual time machine back through Colorado's past.

The final resting place of a 19th-century gold prospector and convicted cannibal.

This underfoot portrait is the work of a disgruntled painter inspired by a tragic poem.

At one time this small mining village was the highest town in America but now it sits abandoned while the mine churns on.

This razorback ridgeline has doubled as a scenic drive since the early 1900s.

An architect in Aspen used psychedelics as his muse while building this mushroom masterpiece.

This highest peak in Idaho can only be reached by traversing a formation known as "Chicken-Out Ridge."

A wild west land agreement was etched right onto this historic Idaho stone.

A petroglyph map of the upper Snake River carved by prehistoric hunter-gatherers.

America's largest man-made forest was planted in an effort to bring back the past.

The home for all things Kool-Aid offers everything except a chance to actually enjoy the drink.

A brick-paved former section of the historic coast-to-coast highway.

An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.

The remains of a bustling turn-of-the-century park built to showcase the wonders of electricity.

The highest point in Iowa, while not that impressive to mountain states, has earned its own monuments.

This remote island in Iowa was abandoned after being devastated by flood.

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

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