Places claireromama Wants to Go

On a dusty county road sit the ruins of a ghost town's abandoned church.

A health museum containing a 27’’½-foot intestine.

The pit stop from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" now serves beef and pork barbecue, not people.

The summer home of the largest colony of bats in the world.

This small town Texas cemetery is said to be the burial site of a UFO pilot who crashed in the 1800s.

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

A medieval castle in the middle of rural Texas.

A popular swimming hole that hides one of America's most deadly diving spots.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

This replica small town lets visitors take a stroll through the story of progress in the U.S. via thousands of Americana artifacts.

Over 600 vacuum cleaners stack the shelves of what may be the cleanest museum in America.

This Kansas City studio was home to Walt Disney's first animation business.

A cave 150 feet beneath Kansas City is the perfect climate for growing 10,000 delicate orchids.

Tucked away between two 19th-century buildings, this small shop specializes in the macabre.

In the Compton Hill Reservoir Park sits a statue whose lack of clothing caused a scandal for the group that commissioned it.

When Joseph Marconnott died, he had a unique final wish: to be mummified and put on display.

The creator of the Kewpie doll's former home has been turned into a museum celebrating her life and work.

A historic, scenic mill that was forced to close due to overlogging.

This mausoleum is the final resting place of one of St. Louis's richest and most tragic families.

Two Ming Dynasty lion statues guard the entrance to the journalism school.

A wax effigy of St. Valentine hides one of the saint's relics.