Places Saladfingers Wants to Go

A monument to the center of the North American continent may be off by a few miles.

A true roadside icon standing on the same plains that the herds once roamed.

Three legendary, living albino buffalo roaming their pastures for all to see.

One man's quest to save his town with a trail of record-breaking sculptures.

This replica of an 8th century burial ship actually sailed to Norway before returning home to Minnesota.

This picturesque cliffside beacon no longer calls to sailors but shines once a year in honor of a famous shipwreck.

Home to the Amorphophallus titanum "Corpse Flower," which is among the largest flowers in the world and also smells powerfully of rotting flesh when in bloom.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

This large midwestern cavern features impressive rock formations and an underground waterfall.

Half of a waterfall goes into the river while the other half seems to disappear.

This New England drive-in was built to straddle the border between two states.

The highest point in the state of New Hampshire, and while unlikely "the worst weather in the world," it sure seems that way to hikers.

This 150 foot seven-tiered cascading waterfall is one of the hidden gems of the White Mountains.

Beautiful natural falls where Satan once ruined a pot of beans.

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.

This narrow canyon has been carved by the river over thousands of years into spectacular and curious forms.

Board a mine car and descend the #190 slope 300 feet underground into the Clark Vein of coal.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

These beautiful ruins deep in the Pennsylvania woods are thought to have been a ski lodge or a speakeasy, but no one really knows.

Mysterious rocks that ring musically when struck.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

Several times a year, during low tide, two pairs of historic train tracks are revealed on this New Jersey beach.

World War II bunker still standing on the New Jersey beach.

A bronze monument to the infamous radio broadcast in the real New Jersey town where the fictional Martians crash-landed.