Places ChadDr Wants to Go

A four story, football field-sized, nine-grotto creation made of shells, minerals, and rare stones.

The highest point in Oklahoma used to be a lawless outlaw's paradise.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

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

This giant Buddha statue has 125,000 smaller Buddhas hidden inside it.

Dine inside a giant caterpillar at this community-run eatery.

This museum explores how a 1973 volcanic eruption forever changed this small Icelandic island.

Fascinating town where normal life interfaces with the occult.

Singapore's last surviving traditional village is hidden among giant skyscrapers and modern infrastructure.

This tiny Vietnamese village is known for eating snakes and serving their still-beating hearts in shots of vodka.

A quaint village where bomb casings from the Second Indochina War have been repurposed into mundane objects.

A memorial to the beloved brown bear that served in the Polish army during World War II.

The chiseled jaw of this forgotten American hero still stands tall in a small Indiana town.

The giantess welcomes travelers to a small Saskatchewan town with a traditional Slavic greeting of bread and salt.

Fifty years after a “blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds,” this idyllic natural area commemorates the carnage.

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

This tiny Swedish troll protects the land and all who wander within it.

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

Everything you always wanted to know about borates is here.

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

In an alley not far from where two great highways meet, byways of a very different sort are honored.

This small, unassuming street is now a canvas for color and creativity.

This shining multicolored metro station deep under Naples is said to be the most beautiful in Europe.