Places djdork Wants to Go

Cavemen, elephants, and eagles greet passengers driving through the town's main intersection.

Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

Rifle through images of skyscrapers, Worlds Fairs, and more in the largest public postcard repository in America.

Small and slightly hidden, the American Writers Museum is preserving the legacy of America's finest authors.

An outdoor urban gallery of large-scale artworks by the world's most influential street artists.

Over 1,000 pieces of one of the most niche art objects imaginable: the glass paperweight.

A Japanese temple, old German townhouses, and public chess tables offer a peaceful escape from the bustle of the North Side.

A relic of the Cold War in Chicago.

A spectacular remnant of an Adler and Sullivan masterpiece that was destroyed in 1972.

Tiny historical streetcars wind through a small scale version of Crescent City in this whimsical train garden.

A spectacular rainbow of stained glass makes the "Pink Mosque" one of the most beautiful in Iran.

Mirrors and glass shards cover every inch of this arrestingly beautiful mosque.

This Polish cave has housed a dragon, a brothel, and an enduring legend.

This memorial to the Mercury Seven astronaut stands at the site of his former elementary school.

Display that gathers the basic elements of the universe in one convenient location.

An exotic wildlife habitat right off The Strip.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

This former lieutenant governor's home is brimming with curiosities.

The best Tiki bar in Las Vegas.

Las Vegas's very own 40-foot-tall fire-spewing praying mantis.

A stunning, abandoned limestone quarry in southern Indiana provided the stone to erect the Empire State Building.

An amazing collection of scale model ships.

Honoring Italian greats from Joe DiMaggio to Rocky Marciano.