Places seanpruden01 Wants to Go

In a time before lifeguards, this house was a sanctuary for the shipwrecked.

Preserving the memory of the narrow railroads that once crisscrossed the state of Maine.

This Pennsylvania structure, the oldest building in Gettysburg, was once a stop on the Underground Railroad.

Travel back in time aboard a restored 1950s-era railcar.

Home of the only civilian casualty at the Battle of Gettysburg.

Built just after the American Revolution, the oldest row house in New York City still stands in Chinatown.

During the 19th century, you could pay for violence off a prix fixe menu on this Manhattan street.

An odd, ancient window that may have once been part of a brutal prison is embedded in the side of New York's Police Plaza.

The first spinning jail built in the United States is the only one that still turns.

On the grounds of this study, Lew Wallace composed "Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ" and many other works.

This small, 19th-century structure is all the remains of a once lively travelers' inn that General Robert E. Lee frequented.

Abandoned railroad tunnel is home to a colony of three million Mexican free-tail bats.

A dam that moonlights as a gigantic, brutalist waterslide.

This sacred cavern, 400 feet deep, is home to millions of bats and an ancient burial ground.

A Texas cave network is home to some of the world's most spectacular-looking and bizarrely named mineral formations.

The first radio telescope dedicated to the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.

A large lava tube that can be walked through with no special equipment.

This quiet park's strange sedimentary spires were named after Kodak's color film.

Rocky outcrops containing overhangs, caves, fissures, clefts, and alcoves that invite exploration and scrambling.

This isolated outpost was once the only place to cross the Colorado River for hundreds of miles.

This mesmerizing and surreal landscape features intricate patterns of white and red sandstone.

Giant pinnacles in the sun-scorched lands of Southern Utah have been nicknamed "white ghosts."

This rugged area of red rocks and arches is often considered one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.