Places BillT Wants to Go

A quaint miniatures museum that turns its focus towards the lives of Americans in a simpler time.

Honoring the star of the “The Bob Newhart Show” which took place in the city of Chicago in the 1970s.

A miniature train theme park, free to the public, laying at the base of the Santa Monica Mountains.

A new kind of theme park for adults off the Las Vegas Strip.

Sip a beer under the gaze of every U.S. president.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

A roadside park in eastern Maine first marked the halfway point between the equator and North Pole with a brass pin in 1896.

Yes, this monument is aware that it is about 20 miles away from the actual center of the United States.

The center of the only hemisphere that awards visitors with a commemorative coin.

A bronze monument to the infamous radio broadcast in the real New Jersey town where the fictional Martians crash-landed.

Swing by this brightly painted former cannery on the water for a crash-course in local boating history.

A roadside Statue of Liberty on the grounds of a manufacturing plant.

This replica of Michigan's mighty Mackinac Bridge is more than 200 times smaller than its northern counterpart.

On the shores of Lake Kalamazoo, a plaque marks a fictional event where an island nation ran aground.

The origin of the Nixon tapes is rooted in technological incompetence as much as secrecy.

There's more contention than one might expect from cherry pie pans.

One of the largest crucifixes in the world stands 55 feet tall in a secluded, wooded area of northern Michigan.

Detroit’s downtown castle is one of the oldest structures in the city.

To truly appreciate Detroit's landmark skyscraper, you have to step inside.

This unique park is dedicated to a favorite locally born snack line.

At the birthplace of American railroading, a world-class collection of historic trains.

Engraved in stone here are the signatures of everyone who signed the Declaration of Independence.

Ernest Hemingway used to frequent this general store, which appears in several of his short stories.

This monument is dedicated to those lost on June 6, 1944, in the town with that day’s highest per-capita casualty rate.