Places brianmilanek Wants to Go

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

A Tennessee tourist attraction touted by some as a campy delight.

A $600,000 pile of stainless steel balls makes for some rather divisive public art.

A large wave-cut arch in limestone, carved by Pleistocene Lake Bonneville, is perched atop a ridge.

Hidden inside this Arizona fast food franchise is an in-depth exhibit on the famed WWII counterintelligence program.

This outpost of America's most popular fast-food restaurant is housed inside a palatial mansion.

A German shoemaker-turned-folk-hero whose impersonation of a Prussian military officer earned international notoriety.

An entire street built on the foundation of the first wall of Amersfoort. It has 61 national heritage sites in the street itself.

A red-brick former uranium-ore sorting facility, located within a communist-era forced-labour camp.

This museum, which had to relocate in 2014 after being devastated by a storm at sea, houses the best collection of cephalopods in Asturias.

The 80-foot tire that looms over Michigan's I-94 was once a Ferris wheel in the New York World Fair.

An eerie collection of the surviving structures from a past celebration of the future.

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

What was meant to be a temporary exhibit is now a permanent fixture at the St. Louis Zoo filled with beautiful birds.

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.

Closed for decades, this strange symbol of Japan's Expo '70 has finally opened its psychedelic insides to the public.

This World's Fair showpiece was built in Chicago, but shipped to Maine.

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

An Art Nouveau building covered in animal gargoyles and grotesques.

The gargoyles and grotesques of the 21st century are here—22 emoji built into a new building in the Netherlands.

A stone copper was sculpted on the wall of the Carlisle Cathedral to honor a local hero.

Pumpkin-like gargoyles and grotesques peer down from the rooftop of this unassuming apartment building in Illinois.