Places acrig Wants to Go

Oversized statues are just the tip of this nostalgic Americana roadside attraction.

Hawaii’s largest cemetery rests inside an extinct volcano crater.

One of Oahu’s best snorkeling and diving spots was created by warm water discharged from the nearby power plant.

Journey through various trails to discover a land before time along the Chazy Fossil Reef.

This pebble beach is so beautiful that taking its rocks is against the law.

Vikings and Evangelicals have both had a hand in this replica medieval church.

These rural ruins are of a Midwestern hotel that was once an elegant spa for the wealthy, then a gangster’s hideaway, and finally a haunted retreat.

The secluded resting place of a local historical figure who perished during the sinking of the Titanic.

Exhibits from an island in Lake Michigan are preserved in this hand-built cabin museum.

In 1859, the Virgin Mary supposedly appeared in this small town.

Almost half-way between the Equator and North Pole.

Restaurant in Northern Wisconsin comes with a unique feature: a grassy roof covered in living goats.

A museum devoted to the victims and the survivors of the most catastrophic fire in American history.

Built by an accountant with a dream of running a grand resort, this estate has sat vacant for over half a century.

The very isolated Charity Island Lighthouse has been watching over Saginaw Bay since 1857.

This historic store hides a museum exhibiting a shoe-sizing x-ray machine and a pair of kicks that once belonged to the world's tallest man.

With 8,000 pipes this giant instrument is the most versatile theatre pipe organ ever built.

A section in the cemetery mostly for circus performers, including victims of the famous 1918 Hammond Circus train wreck.

A sprawling outdoor museum filled with larger-than-life works of art.

This 4,000-acre restored grassland in northern Illinois is home to a range of native flora and fauna, from clovers to plovers to a herd of bison.

The final resting place of two unknown soldiers.

This horror movie and monster shop is like if a haunted house was a retail store.

A replica viking ship from the Chicago World's Fair is still in dry dock in an Illinois park.

This carved armchair marks the final resting place for two pals in the Chicago suburbs.