Places Maggie Wants to Go

A geological bull's-eye visible from outer space.

Monument to the cotton-destroying boll weevil.

A giant 400-acre preserve in North Florida for displaced wolves.

A monument to the center of the North American continent may be off by a few miles.

A tunnel of hardened lava along Maui’s famous Road to Hana.

A table rock formation that has been intriguing West Virginians for years.

The red crab exhibits one of the most spectacular migrations on earth, despite manmade obstacles.

Home to the "Circus" trees created by Axel Erlandson.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

The Mysterious Witch Bonney, a haunted statue in an old industrial city.

A beautiful but toxic fountain of mercury.

The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

A natural history museum with an extensive collection of bird dioramas.

The largest land animal skull ever discovered.

A funhouse dummy that turned out to be a real life mummy, Elmer McCurdy is an urban legend come true.

Collection of skeletal systems from the "world's leading supplier of osteological specimens."

To the great disappointment of doomsdayers, this codex merely contains records of the Moon and Venus.

This dramatic sea spire is home to the world's rarest insect and is part of the lost continent of Zealandia.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

The location of the last stand of Charles Manson's doomsday cult.