Places birresus Wants to Go

Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.

This zombie-themed restaurant stands out in the heart of corn country.

Taxidermy, Cigar Store Indians, A Model of a New York Tenement and Delicious Draft Root Beer.

Bonsai garden in Oakland is curated by the first non-Japanese female bonsai master in the United States.

Mexican food and folk art.

Megachurch turned Catholic church comprised of 10,000 glass panes.

These molds for fiberglass statues have formed an eerie, accidental sculpture park.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

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

Playable, historic pinball machines fill this Alameda museum.

A small medical museum with a recreated doctor's office.

Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and one of the largest glass murals in the US.

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An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans’ graves.

Acres of natural wonders left behind by a socialite-turned-gardener.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.

A tiny piece of the Moon is embedded in this stained glass masterpiece.

An abandoned meat mecca now serves as an excellent locale for urban exploration.

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

A mysterious light floating in the trees of Arkansas may be a piezoelectric effect.