Places Shawb1 Wants to Go

New Zealand's only running funicular railway.

The most remote tree in the world is more than 170 miles from its nearest neighbor.

A solitary tree has grown up all alone on Lake Wānaka, backdropped by the beautiful Southern Alps.

This sheep farm has been forever transformed since being built for “The Hobbit” film series.

Turns out you can see the world without ever leaving Maine.

A piece of baseball history is preserved in a Pittsburgh parking lot.

A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.

Built in 1917, this building is home to the last working spring-loaded dance floor in Utah.

An elderly widow still operates the incredibly detailed model railroad she and her husband built by hand.

A roadside park in eastern Maine first marked the halfway point between the equator and North Pole with a brass pin in 1896.

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

Three markers installed over the course of 140 years mark the point where Arkansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma converge.

This gravelly, dangerous highway is the only road in the United States that leads to the Arctic Ocean.

Alaska Natives have lived on this tiny isolated island in the Bering Strait for over 5,000 years.

The stickered marker pinpoints where the only maintained road in the United States crosses into the polar region.

The "Gateway to the Arctic" connects Barrow's indigenous population with the sea and its traditional industry: whaling.

The final resting place of the living embodiment of the famous Forest Service symbol.

This volcano rises like a giant anthill from the plains below, with a road spiraling up to the rim.

This pseudo-steampunk weapons facility is the world's largest wood and glue structure, and packs quite a wallop.

A unique geological area spiked with wind-carved rocks that resemble teepees.

A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.

A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

The pits used to load the nuclear bombs onto the aircraft that dropped them over Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II.