Places caseyjacks Wants to Go

Known as the "Hobbit Houses," these storybook homes look like they're straight out of the Shire.

The Route 66 institution that inspired Taco Bell also served as an important headquarters for Mexican-American social movements.

This 18th-century former mosque held the first Hellenic Parliament.

Inside the columbarium, thousands of colorful, high-tech Buddhas guard the ashes of the dead.

A giant concrete orb in far north Iceland marks the ever-shifting boundary.

The highway's southernmost spot is a beloved local attraction.

Soaring over the Niagara Whirlpool since 1916.

Genesis of modern hydroelectric power.

Quite possibly the last cross all humans will ever see.

Western New York's largest independent bookstore doubles as a historical repository of all things Niagara Falls.

One of many reminders of Tesla's scientific contributions overlooks the falls which inspired him.

Niagara Falls holds a special place in Nikola Tesla's history, so they put a statue on it.

This Niagara Falls tourist trap is a world bright with neon and curiosities that will inspire love, hate, or a mixture of both.

If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.

The U.K.'s first underground railway line is now a lively thoroughfare for runners and cyclists.

This once-controversial and slightly confusing statue of Achilles was built out of captured cannons.

A familiar otherworldly creature guards this 12th-century Scottish abbey.

A B.Y.O.B. Mexican cantina lives inside one of the last tortilla factories in Brooklyn.

This pirate-broadcasting-tower-turned-restaurant played a rebellious role in the history of Dutch television.

The oldest U.S. Government building in California, and it's State Historic Landmark #1.

More than 700 species live within this murky marvel of a swamp on California's coast.

It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."

Eat a tasty meal in the house where John Steinbeck was born.

The building features one of the last remaining free-floating spiral grand staircases in the U.S.