Places cait7911 Wants to Go

The world's largest collection of the world's largest objects is in one small Illinois town.

The only recreation of William Shakespeare's indoor playhouse.

This abandoned caretaker's apartment is one of 13 left in the New York Public Library system.

The small cave that housed Tennessee's "first citizen."

A view-altering observatory at the University of Texas.

This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.

"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."

The cruel trial of a 13-year-old boy inspired the creation of this now abandoned reformatory.

Toy museum in a former tavern is the expression of one man's life pursuit of the aesthetic power of cartoon imagery.

Bouncing, delightful, mechanical art at the MIT Museum.

Priceless space junk on display in front of a local Dairy Queen.

This railroad overpass is said to be home to a murderous goat-man whose very legend has led to very real deaths.

The Midwest's reigning king of surplus stores is full of nothing you need and everything you want.

It would take 35 firetrucks to fill this enormous glacial pothole.

Discovered by cows, these upstate New York show caves are presented with a healthy dose of psychedelic folk art.

A local prank turned town icon.

This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.

A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.

The iconic Chicago sculpture hides a beautiful and easily overlooked plaque on the backside.

A reclusive Memphis neighborhood is home to decades worth of misunderstood Masonic folk art.

An academy where anyone can train in the exciting acrobatic sports of parkour and freerunning.

Legend says that these tall basalt pillars are the petrified wives of a trickster god.

"Iron Age" creatures fill this huckster's rusted metal sculpture garden.

VW heaven in the backwoods of Dade City, now gone.