Places sarahltait Wants to Go

Alberta's Pipestone Creek Bonebed is one of the densest fossil sites in the world. This nearby museum showcases some of the best finds from its "river of death."

This small museum is home to some of the oldest and best-preserved dinosaur specimens found in Montana.

Come for the 14-foot-long taxidermy alligator. Stay for the mini costumed gators shooting pool.

A fantastic resource for information on both Route 66 and the local area.

This innocuous New Mexico storefront was once the secret jump-off spot for Manhattan Project scientists.

The final resting place of the world's first nuclear reactor.

A plaque marks the site directly below the mid-air detonation of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima.

A sobering scientific reminder of the human damage caused by the advent of the nuclear age.

A roadside music shop featuring a confounding series of folk art installations.

A bronze sculpture honors the 12 black students who attended the first integrated public high school in the segregated South.

This hotel was used during the Manhattan Project to house official visitors.

John Hendrix predicted the creation of the "Secret City" built as part of the Manhattan Project.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

The site of an underground detonation of a megaton nuclear bomb in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

"Not too many people can say they've had a nuclear bomb dropped on them, not too many would want to." — Walter Gregg.

The contents of this safe survived a 37-kiloton nuclear bomb.

This largely forgotten piece of Cold War history stands hidden in the woods just north of the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

On October 26, 1963, a 12-kiloton nuclear device was detonated here in granite some 1,211 feet below the ground surface.

A facility built in 1992 for an underground nuclear test remains in place today.

This old radio building from the 1930s inspired the WSQK radio station featured in the last season of “Stranger Things.”

This stately brick building once provided supplies and equipment to lighthouses across the northeast during the 19th and 20th centuries.

This place claims to be North America’s first vegan convenience store.

Finished in December of 1906, it was the longest rail viaduct in the United States and the third longest of its kind in the world at that time.

Built on a medieval synagogue, this church has a burial crypt, tunnel system, and Jewish ritual bath hiding deep underneath.