Places Caroline Thrift Wants to Go

The only place to see live frogs don pigtails and top hats, then eat their scrumptious legs.

A 35-foot-tall fork stuck in the ground outside an office building in Missouri.

A grandiose octagonal home crowned by a large dome stands out among the antebellum mansions.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

Civil War dumping ground for the bodies of terrorized Union sympathizers.

Unusual house, in an unusual neighborhood, home to some very unusual peanuts.

An abandoned early-20th-century boomtown sits within the Calico Rock city limits.

Turning night into day in Victorian-era Austin to thwart a serial killer.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

A little bit Wonkatania, a little bit pink elephant.

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

Beer lover's can-covered house.

Twenty-year effort to raise a castle using tools and techniques from the 13th century is now abandoned in the Arkansas woods.

A former electrical substation is now home to an eccentric junk art masterpiece.

This one-room schoolhouse in rural Arkansas dates to the 1920s, but looks like it could be the 1820s.

This former mining town was named the most toxic town in America.

This ostentatious Italianate palace of an Oklahoma billionaire is filled with several themed mini-museums.

Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.

This century-old roadside attraction is full of bizarre rock formations.

A hillbilly theme park that proved so unpopular the land wouldn't even sell on eBay after it closed.

This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.

An extravagant western hotel where every floor is the "ground floor."

This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.

An oil baron's wild paradise and the winner of an ill-fated air race.