Places sburke4444 Wants to Go

The highest point in Connecticut was incorrectly memorialized before surveyors discovered the actual spot.

An unrealized dream to wirelessly electrify the entire Earth.

The ruins of an abandoned 18th-century town that is slowly being reclaimed by the forest.

A jewel of early electric boosterism once again charms Connecticut's historic "Hat City."

The location of the pie company that gave a classic toy its name is now a parking lot.

Oldest and rarest examples of telecommunication in the world.

The largest guitar store in the world has been visited by some of music's all-time greats passing through upstate New York.

This 19th century jail was mainly used to incarcerate the drunk and disorderly.

Witness to many historic moments in early Texas history.

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

This two-room factory has been cranking out the musical signifier of zaniness for a century.

A peg-legged tightrope walker did not reveal his name as he was dying, and so he was buried as “Rope Walker."

This historic park site contains the last remnants of a once bustling canal system.

No one knows the origin of this small town’s unique name.

A diminutive memorial marks the site of a successful assassination by a right-wing death squad in America's capital.

Oversized statues are just the tip of this nostalgic Americana roadside attraction.

The site of one of Japan's very few American occupations during World War II still holds the relics of a roundly disastrous campaign.

A large collection of motorbikes with some impressive gems.

Vintage cars and motorcycles race for glory in a throwback motorsport celebration on the Jersey shore.

Sitting in the arguable birthplace of the Wild West, this museum holds the largest collection of bronco busting bric-a-brac in the world.

A monument marks the beginning of the longest north-south road in the United States.

The ruined remains of a coal mining ghost town are hidden within the woods.

The largest freshwater lake in the Florida Keys.

An eerie smiling woman looms above the granite tombstones.