Places edwardobrien Wants to Go

This Minnesota-shaped forest is actually located in the state it is shaped like.

US-50 in Nevada is known as "the Loneliest Road in America," but this earlier iteration of the route is even lonelier.

The site of an underground detonation of a megaton nuclear bomb in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

The farthest you can be in the contiguous U.S. from a McDonald's location.

An overlooked monument to the celebrity gangster who helped put the sin in Sin City.

This chapel on a cliff is renowned for its healing powers and was founded on the site of a supposed divine intervention.

Just a few miles from downtown Atlanta is a trail covered in a crazy collection of outsider art.

A piece of John the Baptist in the American heartland.

This abandoned prison castle has become an imposing gallery of graffiti art.

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

A tree bears footwear on the loneliest road in America.

A private Las Vegas horse ranch adorned with whimsical artwork.

Small Nevada town embraced its designation as the "Armpit of America" with an Old Spice-sponsored festival.

Curiously, this large sporting goods store features 14 wax representations of American presidents.

Its founder calls it a "proletariat art renaissance".

Bill Murray bowled three straight strikes here at Reno's "Taj Mahal of Tenpins."

A unique solar-powered pottery studio and gallery in the desert.

This Old West eatery along America's Loneliest Road was originally a stop on the Pony Express.

The contents of this safe survived a 37-kiloton nuclear bomb.

A Nevada mining boomtown that ran out of silver and luck.

An errant donkey ushered in a new era of mining in Nevada.

Back in the day everyone who was anyone played this historic western theater.

The self-made house sculpture of an outsider artist who named himself "Chief Rolling Thunder."

A land of debatable treasure.