Places andrewvolent Wants to Go

Two tall rocks sit at the center of this site, once the home of a large Ancestral Puebloan community.

A thin pane of glass keeps visitors from sliding off this futuristic skywalk.

This Wyoming town is fascinated by a particular mythical creature.

The crumbling structure is a rare surviving relic of the area's bygone mining industry.

A rancher expanding a natural spring for his cattle came up with bones – lots and lots of them.

Despite being one of the most photographed vistas in the Rockies these twin peaks are rightfully known as the "Deadly Bells."

A beloved, quirky little fountain featuring a large frog spitting water at a naked boy.

The first car-centric shopping plaza in the U.S. brought a little bit of Spain to downtown Kansas City.

A piece of John the Baptist in the American heartland.

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

This abandoned prison castle has become an imposing gallery of graffiti art.

This recently restored timepiece has stood all around Kansas City.

This giant green head remembers one of America's jazz giants.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

Entombed in this strange, white stone hill are the deadly remains of radioactive weapons production.

After miraculously surviving a giant flood, the 19th-century nut tree and its offspring are protected with their own tiny park.

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

This life-size bronze statue remembers the tallest recorded human in his Illinois hometown.

A mythical bird etched into the face of a rock doubles as the mascot for a nearby school.

Fresh wooden posts have been added to ancient holes to recreate a primitive henge clock.

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

University City's quirkiest resident lives in a park named after its first.

This titanic oil company sign is a reminder of the Americana boom of the 1970s and also its commoditization.