Places akriot57 Wants to Go

This enthusiast-led facility is the only museum in the country dedicated to the preservation of weather artifacts.

Located along historic Route 66, this former gas station has been restored and converted into a museum filled with vintage motorcycles.

Claims to be the "World's Highest Hill."

An old spiral fire escape dangles above a public courtyard in Midtown Oklahoma City.

A plaque on the side of a parking garage marks the burial place of a great Ottawa chief.

The only pig museum in the U.S. holds one of the world's largest collections of pig items.

This otherworldly church spire reaches up toward the heavens.

A sculpture of a giant man escaping from the depths of the Earth.

A massive museum preserving the United States culture and the home of Abraham Lincoln's sleigh.

A Google software engineer's Easter egg led to what may be the world's most unusual saved screenshot.

The fastest mail service in the west is tracked and memorialized along this 1,400 mile trail.

The house where the famed outlaw was shot by a dirty coward is now a museum to the criminal's legacy.

The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.

A tree bears footwear on the loneliest road in America.

Small Nevada town embraced its designation as the "Armpit of America" with an Old Spice-sponsored festival.

A homage to the King at the hotel where he revived his career.

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

This historic estate on the east shore of Lake Tahoe was home to an eccentric millionaire (and his pet elephant, Mingo).

This Old West eatery along America's Loneliest Road was originally a stop on the Pony Express.

Las Vegas's very own 40-foot-tall fire-spewing praying mantis.

An eccentric millionaire's personal curio collection includes at least one shrunken head.

A series of labyrinths in the Nevada desert inspire meditation and calmness.

These huge stone ovens in the desert fueled the Nevada silver boom, and may have also been a hideout for outlaws.

Bringing back the art of handmade custom coffins.