Places darrelmw Wants to Go

One of only two remaining Victorian-era greenhouses in New York.

Two New York rooftops are home to the largest rooftop soil farms in the world.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

A collection of more than 10,000 racist objects that teaches the atrocities of social injustice and intolerance in American history.

Artist James Turrell's ode to dawn and dusk on the campus of Rice University.

This magnificent Japanese garden provides a moment of Zen in rural Vermont.

One of the final grand railway depot hotel complexes is slowly being restored to its former glory.

Sleep where gangsters fell amidst smoke and flame, with nary a bullethole to show for the legendary struggle.

A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.

Along the old Route 66 is an abandoned trading post made from old telephone poles, built by a former circus clown.

This Route 66 classic sports a giant fiberglass rabbit that you can ride.

Don't blink or you'll miss it.

This park is home to well over 100 handmade birdhouses.

In California, colorful roadside signs remind us all that love transcends borders.

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

An antique store houses the last operational diner from the defunct department store chain.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

Standing at 21-feet tall, this space cowboy adds to the legacy of Route 66's muffler men.

This beacon for pre-radar pilots once guided Charles Lindbergh to a safe touchdown in Tulsa.

The fifth tallest statue in the United States is a shirtless monument to the oil worker.

A museum packed with instruments, lyrics, and other mementos of the American folk icon.

This historic theater's pipe organ still accompanies silent films just like it did in 1929.

When you can afford only half a road, you build only half a road.

Only museum dedicated to women pilots, with personal artifacts from Amelia Earhart and other aviatrixes.