Places Amalia Wompa Wants to Go

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

The great American road trip, but smaller.

Get fishing gear and craft beer at this restaurant on the pier.

A dramatic coastline that’s home to a rare pine tree.

Admire a Lilliputian replica of the fast food outlet.

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

The largest living museum in the Northeast recreates life from the Early Republic period complete with costumed historians and reenactors.

The oldest house of worship in Palm Beach has a wonderful tropical garden.

Taxidermy reptiles and rodents put on quite the show at this local history museum.

This small New York museum celebrates the mountainous artwork of a Russian mystic.

One of the only single-person private gravesites in New York City.

This teeny-tiny park built by a San Francisco man in 1962 is mostly stairs.

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

The name of this tiny pocket park tucked between two buildings on Manhattan's Upper West Side is Latin for its location: "seventy-one."

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

Order the extra snappy, steamed hot dogs at this fourth-generation-run New England diner.

Dozens of bronze sculptures are woven into the landscape along this trail.

An old dining hall now serves up ghost stories for lusty locals.

Inside this McDonald's you can dine on your Big Mac and fries next to a 2,500-year-old Roman wall.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.