Places TimScruffy1993 Wants to Go

A free museum that memorializes the deadliest river flood in American history, and the civil engineering efforts to tame the Mississippi River.

The Midwest's reigning king of surplus stores is full of nothing you need and everything you want.

The wreckage still sits at the exact spot the plane crash-landed in 1945, carrying 1,000 pounds of explosives.

Covering 37 subterranean acres, this Armillaria gallic is a famous fungus with its own festival.

A restaurant and lodge in northern Wisconsin which served as a clandestine hideout for John Dillinger and featured one of the most famous botched FBI raids in history.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

Ice roads, deep holes and 3,500 pounds of diamonds.

The largest single concentration of harmless garter snakes in the world is a writhing Canadian serpent orgy.

America's silhouette includes 100 square miles of wilderness jutting into Canada thanks to an old mapmaking error.

This cave holds a surprisingly colorful variety of geological oddities.

Software company Epic Systems has created one of the strangest and largest workplaces of all time.

This memorial marks the devastating day that Texas City was destroyed in a daisy chain of exploding ships.

A haunting—but not haunted—chapel remains in the woods.

Long before Europeans arrived, Native Americans built an artificial island out of shells that has withstood a millennia of hurricanes.

This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.

4,000 monkeys used for medical testing on an island off of South Carolina.

Once luxurious, these oceanfront beach homes have been left to succumb to the elements as the beach is slowly washed away.

Where serial killer Aileen Wuornos drank her last beer.

A mesmerizing disco ball-like sculpture along the Sacramento River Walk.

The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.

The now-serene site of the largest earthquake ever recorded in North America.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

A small Richmond island dotted with the remnants of hundreds of years of history.

America's smallest "national forest" has only 33 trees.