Places aswope1995 Wants to Go

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

The site of one of Japan's very few American occupations during World War II still holds the relics of a roundly disastrous campaign.

This partially completed dam was simply abandoned after nearly destroying the city it was built to service.

Giant reed houses made in the marshes of Southern Iraq.

This former monument to an invented Iraqi victory was turned into a military camp during the subsequent invasion.

Board a mine car and descend the #190 slope 300 feet underground into the Clark Vein of coal.

One sculptor's lifelong war game is the largest and longest running miniature campaign in history.

While it is not equipped to peer into outer space this observatory looks like it was built on the moon.

These giant metal horses graze on a hilltop near the Montana highway.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.

Why have you never heard of the second most popular tourist site in New York?

This roadside dinosaur park offered up lumpy neon thunder lizards in the name of kitsch and education.

Michael Heizer's masterwork in the Nevada Basin.

Puzzles within puzzles hide a golden treasure in this hedge maze.

The world's largest maze is a nature park with nearly 200 decision points.

This massive marble memorial was built bit by bit either out of devotion or spite, but at the expense of the surrounding town.

Giant money stones of Yap.

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

Remarkably intact Roman stone fortifications have encircled this Spanish city for centuries.

Where there's quartz, there must be gold. Thus is the story of the mines of Julian, and the titillating times of the Gold Rush.

The home of aviation trailblazers, in a remote corner of the big city.

Waterway populated with abandoned projects, including a submarine.

This abandoned seaside fortress is now simply an imposing ruin being taken back by nature.