Places sjeter2 Wants to Go

Some of the oldest exposed rock formations in the United States.

A plaque on the side of a parking garage marks the burial place of a great Ottawa chief.

This eclectic Austin curiosity shop is home to all things strange and unusual.

This art deco masterpiece was once a miracle spring mecca but is now simply a government office building.

A beloved, quirky little fountain featuring a large frog spitting water at a naked boy.

An urban forest overtakes what was the greatest failure of utopic urban housing.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

What was once a presidential estate is now an exotic menagerie and home to the Budweiser Clydesdales.

The Bucyrus-Erie model 1850B electric shovel, or "Big Brutus," the largest existing electric shovel in the world.

A whimsical monument marks the highest point in Kansas, not that you could tell by the looks of it.

Why settle for barbecue chips when you can get actual barbecue?

Self-built house and sculpture park where the creator can still be seen in a glass coffin.

Marking the spot where a conquistador gave up his search for the fabled Seven Cities of Gold.

Superfans of The Shawshank Redemption can take a driving tour of most of the films real locations.

Cleveland's giant "free" stamp is a nod to the Civil War, but was misinterpreted for years.

A herd of roughly 250 American bison roam these plains.

You thought Santa Claus didn't exist, but it turns out you were wrong.

The home used in just a few seconds of film that came to define the setting of a hit sitcom.

Though it's thrived abroad, this forgotten Dunkin' rival has just one store left in the States.

Recognized the world over as the home of the McCallisters in the 1990 movie "Home Alone."

Behind a modern brick exterior lies the oldest continuously-operating lunch-car diner in the United States.

The building is topped by a Statue of Liberty statue whose torch has stayed burning since the museum opened.

A 70,000-square-foot institution dedicated to a very literal, creationist perspective on the Book of Genesis.

A theme park featuring a replica of Noah's Ark built to the measurements specified in the Bible.