Places bryanwoerner Wants to Go

Home to fossils and other specimens from the Western Interior Seaway.

Rusted and decayed, this former mining site is a portal to the past.

Starting with nothing more than discarded conch shells, one man has built an island/bar that would make Jimmy Buffet jealous.

In the 1970s, the citizens of several small villages came together to stop their homes from being destroyed for a new airport.

This tower has survived the times despite being composed of mud and camel hair.

This psychedelic tromp l'oeil seems to be beckoning drivers to crash into a wall.

This tower was once used to create ammunition for early settlers.

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

The Lund University's former gym houses a museum focusing on the creative process of art.

These were the largest wind chimes in the world when artist Tom Van Sant created them for a California mall in 1967.

This unique structure is the only one of its kind in Virginia.

Eat like pre-Columbian Native Americans in this New Mexico restaurant within the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center.

This medieval village/restaurant perpetually celebrates the year 1376.

Revel in the Victorian splendor of the world's oldest eating establishment inside a museum.

Where else would a linchpin of post-colonial Native American cuisine anchor the menu but a museum?

One of the largest sculpture collections in the U.K. features history's greats, from Bob Dylan to Galileo, in bronze.

A limb from Indiana's largest sycamore tree on record.

A larger-than-life statue of America's favorite sundae marks the place it was invented.

Massive prehistoric mammals used these stones as oversized scratching posts.

One man's attempt to create an artistic wonder on a run-down block in Detroit.

An eccentric folk art landmark made out of discarded bottles by an inspired "grandma."

A private home built to resemble the shape of a microscopic creature.

An architect in Aspen used psychedelics as his muse while building this mushroom masterpiece.

A century-old cabin off of Highway 30 touts an unusual construction material: dinosaur bones.