Places SarahTheExplorer Wants to Go

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

This house proudly displays an interactive and continuously changing exhibit of lawn flamingos.

This abandoned mine offers a glimpse at what life was like for those who came to Alaska seeking Gold Rush riches.

This legendary dessert was served to Nobel laureates for decades.

An original apothecary from 1792.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

While you're unlikely to find riches here these days, this remote mine is a time capsule of the Gold Rush era.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

Easter in Westminster may be the only time and place to behold Edgar Allen Poe made entirely of Marshmallow Peeps.

An unusual, super-sized grocery adventure awaits in an Ohio suburb.

Time travel with sweets across history at this research-based candy store.

The FBI's urban training course may have the highest fake crime rate in the world.

The U.S. Army's giant warehouse of war art includes Hitler’s watercolors and Norman Rockwell oil paintings.

Sasqu(w)atch out!

Nearly 300,000 acres of wildlife, natural splendor, and a hidden ghost town have been designated a national monument.

This former lieutenant governor's home is brimming with curiosities.

Enormous piles of historically significant stones, dumped by Congress in a forest, and abandoned for 60 years.

An otherworldly musical haven in The Big Easy.

Robots, lasers, and whoopee cushions, oh my!

The remnants of a creative early method of wildfire prevention.

After a short-lived attempt to bring America in line with the rest of the world, this road was left in metric.

For those going through a life transition, a place to leave behind a piece of your former self.

Nimrod Polar Expedition base, and home to hundred-year-old frozen whisky.