Places buttercupkandi Wants to Go

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

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

A professional special effects makeup artist’s collection of horror creatures and one-of-a-kind recreations on display in downtown Boulder City.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

A nature and cultural preserve named for its multitude of petroglyphs carved by the Northern Sinagua people.

This tall Massachusetts folly got its name thanks to all of the purple prose its vistas inspired.

"World's largest scrap metal sculpture" stands in an outdoor sculpture garden in the middle of Wisconsin.

Recognized the world over as the home of the McCallisters in the 1990 movie "Home Alone."

A pair of black granite tails dive into a sea of grass in landlocked Vermont.

The quaint little Vermont town played a quaint little Connecticut town in Tim Burton's "Beetlejuice."

This folk art dinosaur was almost pushed to extinction due to lack of a building permit.

Inside this community-run museum, visitors are treated to the history of toys and games.

Every Saturday morning, this microbakery fills up with freshly baked pastries and sourdough breads.

This roadside attraction attracts kids with dinosaurs before blindsiding them with geology.