Places SarahTheExplorer Wants to Go

A fire lookout atop a glacial pinnacle is reached by climbing three vertiginous flights of stairs.

A deserted hodgepodge of experimental structures designed by nearby university students.

A failed utopian experiment for British expats in the American South is now a Victorian village frozen in time.

This stunning iron gate designed by Modernist architect Antoni Gaudí is filled with mythic symbolism.

See Hoover Dam and the bypass bridge from a perspective usually off-limits to the public, and float the upper part of the Black Canyon National Water Trail.

Take a self-guided tour through one of Colorado's most elevated mining districts.

This incredible collection of vintage pinball machines can be played at 25 cents a pop.

A reservoir of vintage pinball machines and arcade games for the nostalgic and thrill seeking.

The largest arcade museum in the world chronicles the golden age of video games which ended promptly in 1987.

A gas station has taken the place of the home of the 19th American President.

The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.

Little did a museum know, they possessed the last-known lunch wagon in existence.

The Internet Age began with a transmission from this biker bar.

A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.

A Cold War atomic camp buried under the ice is now emerging because of global warming.

A busy island at the center of the world that doesn’t actually exist.

A suburban museum tells the story of a historic transportation network and even provides rides in antique trolley cars.

Amid the sprawling Defense Intelligence Agency Headquarters is one of Washington's least accessible museums.

A computer bug so primitive it was an actual insect.

Step into a cartoon at this Seoul café that aims to evoke a two-dimensional scene.

Baked in 1898 and still almost flawless, this floral masterpiece is considered the world's oldest complete wedding cake.

A grassroots community effort in the 1970s led to the creation of this beautiful garden full of delightfully whimsical exhibits.

An antique store houses the last operational diner from the defunct department store chain.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.