Places taylorabranson Wants to Go

A place where the laws of nature seem to have gone completely berserk... but of course haven't.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

Treehouse motel and treehouse-building school.

Robots, lasers, and whoopee cushions, oh my!

An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

The largest island on the great salt lake is home to curious creatures and strange stories.

Largest man-made excavation on earth!

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

A museum devoted entirely to the rattlesnakes and snake-related art.

Buildings that dynamite couldn't bring down were abandoned because of bathroom issues.

The world's first permanently occupied mountain-top observatory continues to report on the stars.

The summer home of the largest colony of bats in the world.

This iconic water tower and failed bandstand is open for panoramic views once a year.

Preserving the remains of Native American cultures which otherwise would have been submerged behind Hoover Dam.

Instead of becoming a power plant, this abandoned complex became a massive letdown.

Captain John Smith thought these cliffs were amazing in 1608 but sharks thought so 20 million years before him.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

The liveliest ghost town in the state.

Read between the lines of the subway map to find the hidden abandoned Civil War fort.

The US Navy's only submarine museum is also home to the world's first nuclear submarine.

The ravine where Jesse James supposedly performed an impossible jump to evade capture.