Places Cindy Cesare Wants to Go

The colossal cartoon man stands outside a Nevada museum.

The wild west is still alive and well at this authentic mining town watering hole.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

One man's love for East Coast diner culture brought an entire eatery all the way from New Jersey to Colorado.

A few iconic structures are all that remain of America’s first outdoor shopping mall.

How did the front of a supersonic jet make its way to a display case in a Kansas City yard?

Houses are tucked between, on, and underneath giant boulders.

The biggest depiction of Don Quixote's love interest in the whole world.

A 17th-century bezoar, dirt from an infamous site, and other curios decorate this unusual bar.

The home of famed war correspondent Ernie Pyle is now a library and museum dedicated to his memory.

For 60 years, skiers have calmed their nerves with cocktails hidden along these slopes.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

It's easy to see why this eclectic architectural wonder has been dubbed the "Spaceship House."

For divers and music lovers, the Florida Keys' Underwater Music Festival provides the best of both worlds.

The abandoned grounds and derelict greenhouses of this once-magnificent Edwardian estate are now a nature preserve open for exploration.

Week-long block party becomes a competition for the best decorated street.

Next to a newer mosque in Khujand’s main square lies the city’s oldest mosque, whose interiors are spectacularly intricate.

Every winter, this former planetarium is transformed into a massive, brightly-lit Christmas ornament.

A small, peaceful sculpture garden with a grim memorial to a disaster that took place a few blocks away.

The design of this ornately decorated place of worship closely mirrors a church in Vietnam.

A surreal, Gaudi-inspired play space near an Anaheim community center.

Inspiration struck on this seat outside the Griffith Park merry-go-round.

A family agreed to sell their property to Disney on the condition that this tree, planted as a wedding gift, would not be removed.