Places daratheodora Wants to Go

This "common-as-dirt" museum celebrates the glory of normalcy.

This historic national park is covered in the stunning ruins of red rock pueblos.

The world's largest Our Lady of Guadalupe statue overlooks this Ohio sanctuary.

Learn about the history and craftsmanship of carousels inside this museum located in a former post office.

This schoolhouse for Black American children is one of the oldest remaining in southeastern Ohio.

There is beauty and history in the ruins of this former company town.

You can walk through the first Boeing Air Force One, which famously carried JFK's casket from Dallas back to D.C.

Origin of the blue-skinned Fugates of eastern Kentucky.

This enormous "cloth of the conquest" depicts the Norman invasion of England in mind-blowing detail.

Ancient paintings known as the "Sistine Chapel of Cave Art."

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

An abandoned mine where dreams of quicksilver trickled away over 75 years ago.

A fifth-century temple improbably built into the side of a cliff.

This secret coastal village is studded with pastel-colored houses all piled on top of one another.

This centuries-old hotel hides a network of secret cellars and passages once used by smugglers.

Locals place their offerings on this nightmarish gnarled tree so the witches won't summon another storm.

The only building in Louisville (hopefully) that contains two ancient holy skeletons.

Rabbit Hash is a heaping slice of Americana from another era, with a very peculiar origin behind its unusual name.

A museum that houses the world's largest collection of ventriloquism dummies.

Prehistoric animals decorate this popular outdoor park.

The oldest operating Mississippi River–style steamboat still navigates the Ohio River.

Every hour on the hour a naked heroine and her leering foil appear from this giant cuckoo clock.

The ship that got left behind.