Places butson Wants to Go

An outlandish shoe shaped house built by an eccentric millionaire.

An unrealized dream to wirelessly electrify the entire Earth.

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.

A remnant from the golden age of aviation still in use today, Pan Am's Clipper service took off from this Art Deco gem.

The site of one of history's most indelible and horrific tragedies.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

The creek where a shark wreaked terror upon New Jersey, and served as the inspiration for "Jaws."

In which a local geological marvel becomes a quaint roadside attraction.

Canada's largest graveyard boasts a lot of noteworthy artifacts as well as its own computerized mapping service.

The final resting place of the world's first nuclear reactor.

A replica viking ship from the Chicago World's Fair is still in dry dock in an Illinois park.

A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.

The humble home where the famous beat author lived briefly and wrote one of his most famous works.

This titanic java kettle is one of the many kitschy landmarks located along America's OTHER famous highway.

Pennsylvania's highest point is spotted with boulders which were pushed to the surface by nothing but cold.

The best Tiki bar in Las Vegas.

This monument remembers one of the manliest men of the frontier who fought a grizzly before dragging himself 200 miles to safety.

Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.

The world's first aircraft factory has been hiding inside an automobile plant for almost 80 years.

Sail through this subterranean show cave that is home to a legend that would go on to name nearly everything around it.

The oldest farmer's market in America is so ancient it was approved by the King of England.

This throwback amusement park is home to rides and unique storybook figures from the past.

A simple plaque remembers an act of WWI terrorism that obliterated an island and forever scarred the Statue of Liberty.

Frank Lloyd Wright’s most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.