Places Skuttel Wants to Go

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

Trails through lava-carved tube-caves display sparkling bacteria and a rich history.

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans’ graves.

A whimsical village of unique treehouses resides in a Washington forest.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

Tour the sci-fi-esque reality of governmental disease management.

Make your reservation to have coffee with some kitties.

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

Take a drunken tour inside the world's largest known geode.

A breathtaking array of ancient Pueblo structures and artifacts counterintuitively preserved by neglect.