Places anatolejolly Wants to Go

The first KFC is on the National Register of Historic Places.

This small shop walked so America could run on Dunkin'.

The first "Hut" was actually a small brick building.

The Route 66 institution that inspired Taco Bell also served as an important headquarters for Mexican-American social movements.

This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.

This feat of German engineering is one of the only elevators in the world following a curved path.

Known as "The Spewer," this bizarre fountain has an even stranger urban legend behind it.

Pleistocene megafauna fossils are the subject of Nevada's newest state park at the northern edge of the Las Vegas metropolitan area.

Visit the cherry blossoms at Tokyo’s unofficial smallest mountain.

This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.

The walls of this small village have been turned into a living street art gallery.

A decommissioned Soviet airplane has been used as a movie theater and a cultural center.

This cuddly rodent has a place of honor at a Russian institute for genetic research.

This striking clock tower was once part of the Singer sewing machine factory.

One of the world's most unusual events combines headbanging and needlework.

The world's largest collection of the world's largest objects is in one small Illinois town.

Knitting isn't just for grandmothers and counterculture isn't just for punks.

This industrial gem was one of the earliest examples of a metal-framed building.

Home to a vast and influential collection of Shakespeareana.

A remarkable lava formation encloses a line of Buddhist statues that can't be accurately counted, according to local mythology.

On this tiny spot of land in the middle of Lake Titicaca the only ones who do the knitting are the men.

Whimsical woolen creatures have taken over this historic Northern Ireland park.

Pay a visit to America's oldest yarn shop.

An old California photo stand has been turned into a shrine to the cozy art of crochet.