Places scottishrose1028 Wants to Go

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

The world's largest occupied bat houses hold hundreds of thousands of flying mammals.

With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.

137 graves holding New England's earliest residents.

Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.

The ancient past meets the retro-future at these dinosaur tracks that are protected by a geodesic dome.

A small peaceful park and waterfall tucked amid the urban grind of Midtown Manhattan.

The center of the only hemisphere that awards visitors with a commemorative coin.

The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.

A small horde of mythical creatures lurk almost imperceptibly within the museum's wildlife dioramas.

A giant pair of thick black glasses mark the tragic demise of a trio of rock and roll legends.

Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.

Instruments, apparatus, and rare books all relating to chemistry and its related sciences.

A Frankenstein blend of science and art allows one tree to produce 40 different types of stone fruit.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

Trash escaped from a landfill to fill beaches with all kinds of treasure.

The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.

The snowbirds here are circus sideshow performers.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

The 28-foot granite map plots the locations of 40 theaters in New York City.

An annual extravaganza of Broadway theater memorabilia.

One of Amsterdam's narrowest houses is located right across the canal from its widest.

A historic beacon built in the aftermath of the worst maritime disaster on the Great Lakes.

This titanic java kettle is one of the many kitschy landmarks located along America's OTHER famous highway.