Places editrixjen Wants to Go

These boots are made for selfies.

Many of the murals covering this sleepy Florida town hide some sort of intentional error.

An early life spent in this "Old Kentucky Home" inspired the writings of North Carolina's most famous novelist.

A lovely aquatic park built by a one-armed Civil War veteran who made a fortune from lotuses.

A whopping 14,000 copper coins cover this miniature fighter jet.

This museum boasts a bucket of teeth and tells the tale of a 20th-century dental circus.

A tiny, unmarked beer and whiskey bar above an Ethiopian restaurant in West Philly fails to conceal live bluegrass.

This 3,500 pound obelisk was constructed with more than 1,000 reclaimed guns.

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."

A plaque marks the spot on the bridge where one of the first elephants in the U.S., Little Bet, was gunned down.

This blue behemoth of a bear is a colorful homage to Brown University's mascot.

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

This beloved marketplace mascot poops money and grants good luck.

This statue of one of baseball’s greatest pitchers looks like something out of a sci-fi horror movie.

Kyiv's answer to Muscle Beach is a Soviet-era gym made from scrap metal.

The remains of one of the last mining camps developed on the New River.

There's a 12-foot-tall replica of the Washington Monument hidden under a manhole nearby.

A Wisconsin kitsch palace from the 1930s lives its second life in 21st-century Brooklyn.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.

A retired subway car stands alone in a field in the middle of Queens.

The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

The remnants of a wooden-hulled fleet built and abandoned in WWI, now home to a thriving ecosystem.