Places adamU Wants to Go

What was once a summer home next to a waterfall has now become littered with graffiti and children in swimsuits.

An Oklahoma museum that celebrates the history of the "Mother Road."

This unique landscape is the only place in the world to dig for hourglass-selenite crystals.

The highest point in Oklahoma used to be a lawless outlaw's paradise.

A museum packed with instruments, lyrics, and other mementos of the American folk icon.

Over 50 historic windmills whir away at this outdoor museum.

The granite monument is engraved with the image of the talking horse's head coming through a barn door.

Where hills of dirt conceal the burial ground of one of the most powerful ancient Native American societies.

A whimsical tower with a spiral staircase, inspired by the Space Age and the Möbius strip.

The only brothel on the National Register of Historic Places.

People of the Plum Bayou culture built these enormous mounds over 1,000 years ago.

This mountaintop refuge rehabilitates tigers, lions, bears, and more from illicit wildlife trade—and offers overnight lodging.

Yup, that's where the name came from.

Two gushing waterfalls of hot spring water within a block of each other.

This restaurant serves wood-fired fare served in a natural cave with a live spring.

Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...

Funhouse of found art and participatory sculpture.

At this Minnesota state park you can easily wade across the source of the mighty Mississippi.

Find out what it sounds like when doves cry at Prince's recording studio estate turned museum.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

One of the deepest springs in Missouri.

This otherworldly church spire reaches up toward the heavens.

This wooded grove of beautiful hand-built stone grottos is a hidden gem within a shuttered Franciscan monastery.

This historic motel standing at the "crossroads of America" offers a radio in every room and was saved by local protesters.