Places natwagner Wants to Go

The world's largest dead polar bear, immortalized by taxidermy and Hunter S. Thompson.

This arts and culture cultural center explores the diverse cultural heritage of the American West.

Once a famous outpost for purchasing saddles and spurs, this museum preserves the art, craft, and style of the American cowboy.

"You can only scalp a customer once, but you can give him a haircut every two weeks"-Barber's Maxim.

Pennsylvania's own Roswell-style UFO mystery.

Rumor had it that these concrete crosses scattered across the Arizona scrubland helped align spy satellites. (They didn’t.)

Over 100 miles from the ocean, this ship-shaped building was built in honor of the owner's sailor son.

A 21-foot-tall statue of a miner made of scrap metal stands in this West Virginia coal town.

At a rest stop north of Seattle, the trunk of an ancient tree.

A relic of roadside lore and perhaps the first of its kind in North America.

A collection of bite-sized buildings creates a magical mini village in the Pennsylvania mountains.

There's something big lurking beneath the surface of this tiny Oregon park.

The future of roadside attractions is this sci-fi soda mecca that is home to a 66-foot tall neon pop bottle.

This 35-foot-tall hamburger-toting chef is said to be the largest bobblehead in the world.

This roadside attraction has been serving out its fair share of hearty folklore and chaos since 1858.

Take a trip back to the 1950s and the heyday of the road trip along Historic Route 20.

This 47-foot chile pepper sculpture welcomes Scoville heat unit obsessed tourists to the Big Chile Inn.

On the side of Highway 50 East, between Carson City and Dayton, Nevada, sits a giant metal spider made from a vintage Volkswagen Beetle.

Visitors to this museum will uncover a whimsical collection of marbles from across time.

These giant metal horses graze on a hilltop near the Montana highway.

A small museum celebrating the fiberglass giants that are icons of America's highways.

This early 20th-century rural drinking fountain provides water for both horses and humans.

An exercise in patience and imagination, where Mother Earth turned common stuff into precious hidden treasures.

An outsider art duo's yard has been turned into a whimsical public gallery.