Places theocurtwill2007 Wants to Go

A strangely angled West Village home is the only monument to an explosion that took the lives of three American revolutionaries.

Possible relics of the ancient Roman city are hidden in this restaurant's façade.

A discreet little stairway on St. Nicholas Avenue leads to a quaint and unexpected cobblestone street of 19th century wooden rowhouses.

This innocent-looking townhome is actually a subway exit.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.

The spaceship-like theater, which is still in use, was one of the most popular exhibits at the 1964 New York World's Fair.

These Great Lakes sea caves accessible by boat in the summer turn into temples of ice reachable by foot in the winter.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

Monument to the cotton-destroying boll weevil.

Burial mounds of prehistoric Native Americans who lived along the DuPage River.

Now nearly abandoned, Kaskaskia was once the capital of Illinois and one of the most important towns on the upper Mississippi.

This simple gravestone remembers a pig who single-hoofedly raised $19,000,000 for the Navy.

This family driveway also serves as the highest point in Illinois.

Today this bizarre rooftop phone booth seems like a piece of kitsch but it was once used to spot disastrous storms.

This architectural stunner is one of the few surviving Egyptian Revival theaters in the U.S.

Tour the luxe "glass cage" that inspired and unnerved the architecture world upon its debut.

Cold War missile launch site which has been converted to a public park.

This 25-foot-tall gorilla made his way from the Wildwood boardwalk to a Pine Barrens gas station and deli.