Places stalebred Wants to Go

The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

Gleaming self-built castle towers made from beer cans and inspired by "Vitamin Mary Jane."

Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.

This UFO landing strip was created by a charitable Wyoming city that was worried about residents of Jupiter.

The remains of a 12th-century chapter house in Golden Gate Park.

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

San Francisco's most expensive hotel suite includes a secret passageway rumored to have been used by JFK.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

A cannon designed to fire an atomic warhead.

These faux-cliff dwellings allow visitors to climb around on a replica archaeological site.

The ruins of this abandoned fort now stand as a picturesque reminder of America's march West.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

Crystal clear lake with a shoreline of travertine located in a Colorado canyon.

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

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

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

The largest historic preservation organization in the United States.

The chiseled jaw of this forgotten American hero still stands tall in a small Indiana town.