Statesboro, Georgia
U.S. National Tick Collection
The world's largest collection of ticks.
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Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Statesboro, Georgia
The world's largest collection of ticks.
Burlingame, California
A comprehensive collection of Pez dispensers.
Evanston, Illinois
More than 8,000 drinking jugs say “Cheers!” to a guy named Toby.
Zionsville, Indiana
A collection of over 2000 air-moving devices of all kinds displayed in the Fanimation headquarters.
Alliance, Nebraska
An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.
Monowi, Nebraska
America's smallest town is run by its single citizen/mayor/librarian/bartender.
Brookfield, Illinois
It was originally part of a "terrible lizards" collection at the 1964 New York World’s Fair.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."
Carthage, Missouri
This historic motel standing at the "crossroads of America" offers a radio in every room and was saved by local protesters.
Toledo, Ohio
A 30-foot stack of piano keys memorializes one of the greatest keys players in jazz history.
Alexandria, Scotland
A local tree surgeon has created a whimsical walk full of carved tree stumps near Scotland's Loch Lomond.
Speculator, New York
The great American road trip, but smaller.
Corbett, Oregon
A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.
Forks, Washington
Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.
Sweetwater, Tennessee
Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.
Clinton, Tennessee
A bronze sculpture honors the 12 black students who attended the first integrated public high school in the segregated South.
Millburn, New Jersey
These mystical miniature houses bring a touch of magic to the New Jersey woods.
Supply, North Carolina
Divinely-inspired village houses 6,000 dolls, plus strange and lovely outsider art.
Bridgeport, Connecticut
This factory made "health corsets" that were a step towards liberating women's bodies.
Hartford, Connecticut
The early American colonists were such ferocious drinkers the law actually required every town to have a tavern.
East Lyme, Connecticut
With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.
London, England
A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.
London, England
Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.
Dummerston, Vermont
The house where Rudyard Kipling wrote 'The Jungle Book' is also the location of the first tennis court in Vermont.