Places Ckorear512 Wants to Go

Medical museum featuring a number of excellent medical models.

America's first public mental health facility.

At the birthplace of American railroading, a world-class collection of historic trains.

One of the oldest anatomical theaters in the U.S. still in use was once the site of an infamous cadaver riot.

Medical history museum featuring a lovely doctor's office from the 1800s.

An Arizona museum with a collection of pharmaceutical oddities, including a jar of a gangster's chewed gum.

Glass-walled, mid-century modern showroom for cars, still in operation.

Amazing taxidermy dioramas from the 1960s in a cement building meant to look like an ice cave.

The 10-foot-tall vegetables belong to Michigan’s first food rescue program.

This feline raises a friendly paw at drivers barreling toward the freeway.

A single light illuminates one man's overshadowed contributions to street lamp history.

The world's tallest turtle riding the world's largest snowmobile.

Clean, cold drinking water flows from a nondescript pipe in a roadside rock face.

This plaque marks the spot where the first crossing guards helped get kids safely to school.

A soon-to-be-forgotten roadside spectacle loaded with local lore.

The Midwestern United States' tribute to Michelangelo is a foam statue sprayed with gaudy gold paint.

These memorials built by an eccentric bachelor on the side of Interstate 5 cause both wonder and traffic accidents.

In this roadside "community for the small," abandoned toys gain new lives.

This tremendous trout welcomes visitors to a northern Michigan town with a rich fishing history.

A horse-drawn 1858 steam pumper fire engine encased in glass on the front lawn of a Michigan insurance company.

At an isolated roadside rest area stands a monument marking where famous Western star Tom Mix died in 1940.

A wealth of pop culture statuary and green chile dishes give this roadside restaurant clout.

Dubbed the "smallest church in America," this tiny sanctuary was a local grocer's dream come true.

There are two legends behind the origin of this unusually tall sanitary structure.