Places Jared Steed Wants to Go

Home of the International Space Hall of Fame.

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

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.

Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

The site of Billy the Kid’s most famous escape and the end to the Lincoln County War.

These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.

A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

A propulsion engine testbed that paved the way for the Space Shuttle launch sits without recognition at this rocket center.

Strange rock formations tower above the river that snakes through this enchanting Icelandic canyon.

The bombed out remains of the old church were kept intact next to the new one, as a reminder of the futility of war.

A World War II gun battery sits at the easternmost point of North America.

One of these two land speed record-breaking vehicles went so fast it shattered the sound barrier.

One of the few surviving Panama Canal steam shovels stands outside a tiny Colorado mining museum.

There's an exclusive Beefeaters pub hidden in the Tower of London.

The painter of "The Scream" is laid to rest under a stoic bust of himself in the humble corner of an Oslo cemetery.

An eclectic collection of artifacts from the Wild West is preserved in a remote fictional pioneer town.

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.

The site where Michigan launched its first rocket into space lies abandoned in the dense woods along Lake Superior.