Places brittaniethekid Wants to Go

When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

This outpost of America's most popular fast-food restaurant is housed inside a palatial mansion.

A plaque marks a former safe house on the secret route, now hidden next to a McDonald's.

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

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

One man's unrequited love stands in a glass box forever.

The first rural cemetery west of the Mississippi is home to the elaborate tombs of St. Louis' local beer barons.

A chessmaster's dream destination.

A kitschy, creepy St. Louis mainstay.

A big museum full of little worlds.

The show pony of cave systems, Fantastic Caverns manages to live up to its name.

A 35-foot-tall fork stuck in the ground outside an office building in Missouri.

A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.

Mass graves and Victorian monuments mark the history of Memphis in this 19th century cemetery.

Collection of skeletal systems from the "world's leading supplier of osteological specimens."

The surprising home of the iconic Santa Monica Pier Ferris Wheel.

A museum devoted entirely to the rattlesnakes and snake-related art.

The final resting place of one of Thomas Jefferson's formerly enslaved sons.

A giant, Gilded Age mansion that once belonged to the beer baron of Milwaukee.

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

A strange and haunting monument of unknown origin in the historic Graceland Cemetery.

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

This modest post office sits on the site of H.H. Holmes' famous murder castle.

The final resting place of up to 6,000 Confederate soldiers, the largest mass grave in the Western Hemisphere.