Places sjohnston40 Wants to Go

The remains of an abandoned dinosaur theme park litter the woods just off the highway.

The world’s largest truck stop includes a barber shop, chiropractor, and a huge museum with antique trucks.

Ask nicely, and stewards of a centuries-old charitable tradition will give you free bread and beer.

No one’s quite sure why there's a metal megaphone bolted on two rocks in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

The unedited photograph called "Bliss" has graced the screens of over a billion computers.

A volcanic tunnel illuminated by natural skylights offers a shaded respite from the desert sun.

By public opinion, this is Canada's knottiest tree.

The illuminating collection of L.A. street lights is run by the city and only opens one day per month.

A line of abandoned, alien-like fortresses dot the mountains of North Italy.

The only surviving leech house in the United Kingdom was a home for bloodsucking worms until the 1900s.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

Monty Python fans will recognize this abandoned mine as the Cave of the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

Edison's cast-in-place concrete houses were a failure, but way ahead of their time.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

This 14th century wine cellar is home to the oldest barrel-stored wine in the world.

A railroad tunnel that, upon its completion, was considered one of the engineering marvels of the modern world.

An abandoned railroad tunnel is now filled with bioluminescent bugs.

Bullet holes in the church wall are a reminder of the violence that followed the assassination of a high-ranking Nazi officer.

Modern commuters still pass through this 2,000-year-old Roman archway.

A tiny museum in Esperance, Australia, displays a bunch of space debris from NASA’s Skylab.

There's a 12-foot-tall replica of the Washington Monument hidden under a manhole nearby.

This Manchester laundromat is hiding something.

This cavernous abandoned marble mine is popular with ice skaters in the winter.