Places causeiwander Wants to Go

An outsider art duo's yard has been turned into a whimsical public gallery.

A Victorian-style home known as the “Castle on the Hill.”

A hyper-luxurious, 12,000- square foot home might be buried beneath Queens, still waiting to protect you from nuclear missiles.

The 80-foot tire that looms over Michigan's I-94 was once a Ferris wheel in the New York World Fair.

A replica viking ship from the Chicago World's Fair is still in dry dock in an Illinois park.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

This UFO landing strip was created by a charitable Wyoming city that was worried about residents of Jupiter.

A long and winding trail through history led to the current iteration of this mountaintop tower.

Features unique photographic collections by women of the American West and historical attractions such as a two-story outhouse.

This prison-turned-museum is a remnant of the Old West's grizzly, violent past.

A devilishly named gorge that was a sign of salvation for many pioneers.

Tucked away on a scenic trail, a modest memorial honors one of the greatest writers of our time.

Despite his legacy of work in Spain, Cuba, and Florida, the larger-than-life writer's grave is a simple affair tucked in an Idaho cemetery.

When in Idaho, sleep in a giant potato.

These black pillars of volcanic basalt seem to call mountain climbers with an unbreakable siren song.

A petroglyph map of the upper Snake River carved by prehistoric hunter-gatherers.

This massive mushroom has spent centuries eating its way across a huge swath of Oregon.

This perfectly preserved Chinese medicine shop was untouched for decades before being reopened as a museum.

Make it an offering.

A fine, large-aperture telescope available for public use.

This rare, carefully curated collection showcases the history of neon inside a grandiose Elks lodge.

An extraordinary mixture of natural beauty and man-made phenomena.

The ceiling of this cavern is dripping with multicolored marble stalactites.

Harder layers in colorful sandstone weather out as prominent “fins" and even more intricate and bizarre shapes.