Places Ckorear512 Wants to Go

Eight feet in diameter and more than 24 feet around.

This ostentatious Italianate palace of an Oklahoma billionaire is filled with several themed mini-museums.

Nature's biggest mammal swims in landlocked Oklahoma.

This roadside park filled with unusual statues is on the grounds of an abandoned railway station.

An eclectic assortment of medieval architecture in a small Iowa town.

This wooded grove of beautiful hand-built stone grottos is a hidden gem within a shuttered Franciscan monastery.

A natural rock formation believed to be a cure-all.

Over 600 acres of idyllic open grassland honor Nebraska’s georgic storyteller.

While there are no actual snakes in the history of this crooked road, there may be a number of dead horses.

Self-built house and sculpture park where the creator can still be seen in a glass coffin.

A tiny but mighty little pumper sits in the middle of the street, waiting for the next big oil strike.

An extravagant western hotel where every floor is the "ground floor."

This historic folk art garden contains a nightmare tower that claims to be the world's largest concrete totem pole.

A home designed to be on the cutting edge of comfortable, low-cost living.

This museum features the original car used on the Beverly Hillbillies sitcom.

A detached cement mixer has been transformed to resemble a relic from some obscure NASA mission to Oklahoma.

The “American Gothic" artist's largest works hang in an Iowa State University library.

Beating out all other concrete competitors, this massive garden feature's pointy hat has earned it a world record.

Visitors to this museum will uncover a whimsical collection of marbles from across time.

To honor his gardening wife, this yard artist turns bowling balls into playful, colorful sculptures.

The first "Hut" was actually a small brick building.

No one knows the origin of this small town’s unique name.

An unlikely Transcendental Meditation haven in the American Heartland built around the ancient Vedic principles of balance and harmony.

A half-mile long and three stories high, this bridge over the Des Moines River Valley mimics a descent into a mine shaft.