Places canlarue Wants to Go

This big empty pig is a nostalgic throwback to mid-20th-century Texas barbecue.

Discover a beautiful natural paradise, minutes away from a thriving city.

A collection of incredible clay crafts, complete with earthen skeletons and mermaids.

This lighthouse was crafted as penitence for the theft of wine bound for a monastery.

One of the last remaining movie theatres in the country that features a rear-projection system.

The moving metal works of one troubled artist can still be viewed on his front lawn... for now.

A museum dedicated to the mysterious cryptid.

A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.

The oldest active mini golf course in the U.S. has an elegant Art Deco style filled with lush tropical plants.

An artist weaves "wooden quilts" with scraps salvaged from his Katrina-damaged home in Tremé.

These six walrus head statues harken back to a time when this area wasn't far from the oceanfront.

A mysterious monument covered in a binary code marks the heart of tech.

The final resting place of some of Staten Island's earliest settlers and their descendants.

An enormous sinkhole that local lore attributes to the anger of the Virgin Mary.

While knives are the main feature in this store, visitors will also find dinosaur bones and meteorites.

The bronze uniforms commemorate the vital role of women during World War II.

This family-owned bakery is one of the last places in Brooklyn to sell the Nation of Islam–inspired bean pie.

Artist James Turrell's ode to dawn and dusk on the campus of Rice University.

A witch wreaks ruinous revenge on this ancient church with her "enchanted leg."

After a traumatic encounter with a six-foot eel, one Galway baker started making a daily loaf of sourdough in its shape.

This family cemetery is a reminder of a smallpox outbreak in late-19th-century Texas.

The scars of World War II are preserved on its walls.

The first fresco Diego Rivera painted in the United States can be found in the former San Francisco Stock Exchange.

A former telephone box found new life as a photo booth and charity fundraiser.