Places claireromama Wants to Go

The largest hand-carved, outdoor sculpture collection in the state of Maine.

This "volcanic all-day restaurant" is right on the beach.

Watch butterflies take flight before you fly.

A mother’s sweet tradition lives on with this unique memorial.

The traveling wares of Denmark's most famous author.

This Garden District mansion was built to be bigger and grander than its original owner's former partner turned rival.

The location where the iconic movie character declared it was time to go home.

This sign designates the road that leads to the infamous Area 51.

A small villa said to have inspired the design of the court jester at the heart of Giuseppe Verdi's 1851 opera.

The oldest Naval chapel in the United States is home to an incredible collection of Tiffany stained-glass windows.

This classic photo booth was saved from destruction by the local community.

A sprawling maze of used books piled from floor to ceiling.

An 18th-century Spanish watchtower made entirely of seashell and concrete.

Jacksonville's highways rendered this century-old grammar school unusable.

Two men built this castle on the Florida coast as an artistic “landscape sculpture.”

Where monkeys run wild and the humans are caged.

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

This home is decked out like a psychedelic explosion of colors and bowling balls.

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

Possibly the world's oldest rug, this Egyptian relic is woven entirely from ancient cat hair and once carried a mummified human foot.

Believed to be the only Orthodox church in the world that features a free-standing pulpit.

What started as three small gnomes at the base of a tree has grown into a full-blown gnome home.

After funding was cut for a memorial to the Danish author, the sculptor had his statue ceremonially lowered into the city harbor.

At this airport "microcinema," you can catch a film before you catch a flight.