Places slgwv Wants to Go

In the middle of the Alaskan wilderness, lies a train trestle to nowhere.

One of El Paso's oldest dives may have inspired the classic Marty Robbins song.

A series of murals depict the evolution of plant life from the Precambrian to the modern day.

This erect, phallic geological spire wasn't always named so domestically.

Roaming bison and a spectacular view at the highest point in Nebraska.

Venture into the past with an unlisted exhibit hall featuring extinct birds.

A monument commemorating how a frontier town got its unusual name.

Among the may artifacts on display is a clock made of 50,000 individual pieces of wood.

Come for the history lesson, stay for the mule-pulled boat rides.

In eastern Oregon, two mineral hot springs sit along the Malheur River in a fairly desolate area where peace and quiet are abound.

It’s hard to believe this hostile landscape was once a health resort.

A historic covered bridge is but one example of an oddly prevalent American urban legend.

A "house to which to flee" for settlers in colonial Pennsylvania.

An industrial waste tourist attraction.

A smaller model of the Da Vinci sculpture that took 500 years to come to life.

This arcade is one of the last places to catch a public performance by the now-defunct ShowBiz Pizza's house band of animatronic animals.

A small mountain made entirely of banded iron stone overlooking downtown Ishpeming.

Step aboard the first ship to circumnavigate North America.

Welcome to the home of the world's largest typewriter company.

Some say that the battle fought at this Kansas site in 1856 was the first unofficial battle of the American Civil War.

No one knows who painted this mysterious mural in a Penn State basement.

The world's third-largest crystal sphere has sat in the Penn Museum since 1927 with the exception of one outlandish theft.

Standing 191 feet tall and measuring more than 55 feet in circumference, this is the world's tallest spruce tree.

Once home to a thriving oil industry, this town now sits eerily abandoned.