Places arleendthomas Wants to Go

"Enter and be entertained or annoyed by Dada in Walla Walla."

The world's last remaining store of its kind.

A sprawling cave network created by a lone lava tube.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

This bird-shaped rock formation defies gravity, time, and classification.

Some 2,000 carvings show this rare desert spring has been an oasis for travelers for over a thousand years.

A frozen oasis lies beneath the scorching New Mexico desert.

This 1802 building is the last remaining octagonal schoolhouse in Bucks County.

An extraordinary collection of vampire-themed antiques lurks on the second floor of a store.

A menagerie of concrete animals brought together from across New York City's parks.

It's big, it's a ball, and it's made of twine—the world's largest of its kind.

A miniature representation of Canadian cities and landmarks in incredible—and sometimes hilarious—detail.

This knick-knack-covered house (complete with a matching van) is a charming oddity in the middle of a modest downtown neighborhood.

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.

The unedited photograph called "Bliss" has graced the screens of over a billion computers.

These hooded graves are the only of their kind in the United States.

Over 100 concrete munitions bunkers are all that remain of a Pennsylvanian village seized by the US government.

Construction uncovered this trove of fossils, which visitors are welcome to add to their own collections.

A retired firefighter created this contraption so he and his family wouldn't die if accidentally buried alive.

This single-screen Art Deco theater in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania opened its doors in 1941.

The inventor of a number of hybrid corn species is immortalized with a field of giant corn.

This sculpture is a cross between an observatory and an earth mound to honor the community's rich history.

A monument to a Native American leader who was known for never breaking a promise and met his end after signing a deal with white settlers.

Beautiful hillside Vermont cemetery with amazing funerary art.