Places callenrecban Wants to Go

A black and white painted wall creates an optical illusion in the California desert.

This departure gate in Austin's airport sends travelers to over 120 imaginary destinations.

The quirky gift from West Berlin for the 1968 World's Fair still stands in Hemisfair Park.

A collection of massive stacked rocks in Texas includes a snarky note on the benefits of modern technology.

A wacky, UFO-shaped house in a suburban neighborhood.

Welcome to a starkly beautiful sanctuary where the buffalo roam.

The Milburn-Price Culture Museum in Vega offers a brand-name oversized cultural attraction.

This water tower slanted at an uncomfortable angle off the old Route 66 was an ingenious marketing ploy.

This beautiful ancient site is dotted with perforated sandstone pillars considered sacred by some Native American groups.

This sculpture gallery is home to magnificent beasts made of scrap metal and found objects.

An entire city block built completely out of petrified wood.

One man's quest to save his town with a trail of record-breaking sculptures.

The world's largest Holstein cow.

Once a slice of Cold War-era military history, this museum is finding its future in the stars.

This historic folk art garden contains a nightmare tower that claims to be the world's largest concrete totem pole.

In addition to fishing and camping, this spot in Nebraska’s Sandhills is one of the world’s darkest places.

A 1940s nuclear reactor built to produce plutonium for the Manhattan Project.

Another of California's unused Cold War missile defense complexes has become a graffiti gallery.

Dedicated to the history of the 1,000 nuclear missiles that once covered the Great Plains.

A gem in the small Missouri town where Winston Churchill coined the term "Iron Curtain" and effectively began the Cold War.

Three abandoned missile silos are hiding in plain sight behind a suburban development in Maryland.

This sprawling museum holds one man's giant collection of real tanks.

A park dedicated to veterans with various military vehicles, including an F-14 Tomcat, in the middle of the suburbs.

Modern technology and live displays tell the story of the Pacific during WWII for the Internet generation.