Places Cindy Cesare Wants to Go

Modern-day cave dwellers carve elaborate homes out of volcanic debris.

A free library to stumble across, one of many placed worldwide if you know where to look.

A surreal, interdimensional shopping center and portal to another universe by Meow Wolf.

This 39-foot-tall version of a Hopi figure stands in Arizona.

This antique shop features a large collection of ornaments amassed by an Ohio florist who helped decorate the White House for the holidays.

Erroneously called the world's tallest flagpole, this landmark is devoted to "good neighborliness."

Danish children are taught that Santa lives in Greenland, at this exact cabin.

Meet Rita the Rock Planter, one of Danish sculptor Thomas Dambo's enormous wooden trolls.

This small cave in the center of Isla Colon doubles as a sanctuary.

The only dome home to be owned or occupied by dome inventor Buckminster Fuller.

Pleistocene megafauna fossils are the subject of Nevada's newest state park at the northern edge of the Las Vegas metropolitan area.

At the base of the Spring Mountains, a unique nursery packed with desert plants.

At this 1940s-era neighborhood favorite, you can still drink a cherry phosphate.

Puzzling...this tree looks like an assemblage of dismembered monkey limbs.

A working miniature city designed to teach kids about safety and presumably city planning.

The last of a gourmet supermarket chain, this store helped spark California's Food Revolution.

One of the last Art Deco gas station still standing in Dallas.

The second largest palm grove in Europe was planted during Moorish times and has been largely unchanged since then.

A glittering South Asian anomaly in a wealthy Los Angeles suburb.

In the middle of the desert, miles from any human life, sat an anomalous pay phone that still magically answers your calls.

Nationwide network of co-ownership underground catastrophe shelters.

Hundreds of trees made from glass bottles make up this forest on Route 66.

This golf ball–shaped former desert real estate office now houses a UFO museum.

Preserving the remains of Native American cultures which otherwise would have been submerged behind Hoover Dam.