Places defriesen Wants to Go

This former small town was destroyed not by the motor oil it sprayed the ground with but by the toxic waste that was added.

The multinational Burger King chain is banned from operating within 20 miles of a family restaurant filed under the same name.

This titanic oil company sign is a reminder of the Americana boom of the 1970s and also its commoditization.

What was meant to be a temporary exhibit is now a permanent fixture at the St. Louis Zoo filled with beautiful birds.

The red brick house where the father of rock 'n' roll wrote some of his classic hits.

This historic lavatory leftover features two levels of defecation stations completely without context.

A notorious Route 66 eatery once frequented by Al Capone.

A 20-foot-tall egg painted in a traditional Czech patterns by the Czech community in Wilson, Kansas.

Oversized statues are just the tip of this nostalgic Americana roadside attraction.

This mid-19th-century dugout was once home to a Swedish family as they erected their homestead.

The oldest house in Lindsborg, Kansas, includes some fascinating inscriptions.

A unique blue and yellow phone booth in America's "Little Sweden."

This museum located in the "Corn Cob Pipe Capital of the World," chronicles the history of cob pipe.

Who said a biker bar is no place for a taxidermy squirrel collection?

Marking the spot where a conquistador gave up his search for the fabled Seven Cities of Gold.

An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.

This lagomorph-obsessed Route 66 emporium is home to a giant jackrabbit that sits in a bunny graveyard.

Taxidermy and miniatures come together to create this unique museum.

This life-size bronze statue remembers the tallest recorded human in his Illinois hometown.

Yes, this monument is aware that it is about 20 miles away from the actual center of the United States.

Self-built house and sculpture park where the creator can still be seen in a glass coffin.

This museum collects over a century of automobile history including the iconic car from The Muppet Movie.

This lighthouse and shipwreck museum keep a torch burning for the memory of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

The maximum security facility was once thought to have "the bloodiest 47 acres in America."