Places Shawb1 Wants to Go

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

One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

The Corinthian columns that towered over Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration stand proud.

This ghostly Alaska village still clings to a steep cliffside despite having been abandoned for over 50 years.

An auroral research program that superheats the ionosphere.

The ghostly remains of what was once the world's richest copper mine.

Massive mounds of golden sand look like a desert landscape randomly plopped in an Arctic forest.

The ruins of a town wiped out by the second-largest earthquake in recorded history.

A monument commemorating the role of Alaska's native Tlingit guides in the Klondike Gold Rush.

The northernmost truck stop in the United States.

The easternmost town in Alaska can only be accessed from Canada.

Tour a Cold War-era U.S. military missile launch site in Anchorage.

The now-serene site of the largest earthquake ever recorded in North America.

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

There is an unmarked red button hidden over Houston's Buffalo Bayou that is just begging to pushed...

In Paris, Texas they have their own Eiffel Tower, it just has a cowboy hat on it.

This mountain tram provides stunning views while hanging from a single, steel thread.

The only international border marker within the United States.

This site honors the end of a 100-year boundary dispute between the United States and Mexico—all started by a river's shifting course.

A city park that sits on top of a freeway.

One of the last Art Deco gas station still standing in Dallas.

Scotland's only funicular railway is also the United Kingdom's highest.

A monument in Washington D.C. marks the spot from which all other roads were supposed to stem.