Places sverige17 Wants to Go

An eerie and beautiful group of columns mark the site of a grand mansion lost to time and fire.

This iron and wood Civil War city-ship was the first vessel to be sunk by an electrically detonated torpedo.

The show pony of cave systems, Fantastic Caverns manages to live up to its name.

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

The maximum security facility was once thought to have "the bloodiest 47 acres in America."

The world’s largest combined collection of U.S. and Russian aircraft got its start in a poultry building.

The Bucyrus-Erie model 1850B electric shovel, or "Big Brutus," the largest existing electric shovel in the world.

A cannon designed to fire an atomic warhead.

A landscape of massive spherical boulders are the main attraction in this Kansas State Park.

The United States's largest hand-dug well is topped with a state-of-the-art museum.

Self-built house and sculpture park where the creator can still be seen in a glass coffin.

Marking the spot where a conquistador gave up his search for the fabled Seven Cities of Gold.

Home to Hollywood history and a very special salt crystal.

This historic folk art garden contains a nightmare tower that claims to be the world's largest concrete totem pole.

A whimsical tower with a spiral staircase, inspired by the Space Age and the Möbius strip.

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

The scene of one of the darkest moments in American labor history has been left essentially untouched since the tragedy.

Foragers once flocked to this big beautiful bayou to hunt for pearls.

This once lawless patch of land was home to an infamous and deadly land feud.

The final resting place of Captain William Becknell, the Old West frontiersman who forged the Santa Fe Trail.

In Paris, Texas, even Jesus wears cowboy boots.

Once in disrepair, this popular Texas stop along iconic Route 66 has been restored to its past glory.

The folks at the Devil's Rope Museum want you to get hooked on barbed wire history.

This water tower slanted at an uncomfortable angle off the old Route 66 was an ingenious marketing ploy.