Places tkwhit02 Wants to Go

Only museum dedicated to women pilots, with personal artifacts from Amelia Earhart and other aviatrixes.

Bonsai garden in Oakland is curated by the first non-Japanese female bonsai master in the United States.

The final resting place of the most famous sharpshooter.

The hollow trunk of this 650-year-old tree was used as a hideout by two Jewish brothers during World War II.

The largest retailer of seashells in the world.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

About 80% of all U.S. avocados are descendants of Rudolph Hass's glorious tree.

A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.

A Catholicism-themed restaurant where sacrilege is on the menu.

A local dialect born in the late 19th century is only spoken in this isolated California valley.

A larger-than-life statue of America's favorite sundae marks the place it was invented.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

The multinational Burger King chain is banned from operating within 20 miles of a family restaurant filed under the same name.

Gaze upon chocolate sculptures depicting everything from chariot races to Gaudí's famous church at this shrine to sweets.

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.

One of the largest helium balloons in the U.S. is a 112-foot ginormous orange.

A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

This Old Testament garden features 100 plants from biblical times.

This former Roman Catholic Church still contains the embalmed hearts and organs of 22 popes.

One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

Of course the grave of JFK's assassin is surrounded by conspiracy theories.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.