Places EJNorman Wants to Go

Guests become prisoners on a visit to Latvian prison.

A late sculptor's last project was to turn this abandoned cement factory into a castle-themed amusement park.

The largest whale museum in Europe allows visitors to walk among life-size giants.

This small museum in a 17th-century building honors three iconic Scottish writers.

This wrecked airplane has been sitting on a black sand beach since the 1970s.

The oldest hall in Iceland was written of in the Sagas and features a centuries-old escape tunnel.

An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.

The exhibition explores the Icelandic city's Viking Age history.

This aromatherapy shop and mini-museum cofounded by the Sigur Rós frontman documents Icelandic history through scents.

One of the oldest family businesses in Reykjavík serves lamb-based hot dogs.

The lowest point in the state of Illinois, at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers.

This spot in St. Louis, marked with a simple sign, has seen more pro baseball than just about anywhere else in the world.

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

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

Entombed in this strange, white stone hill are the deadly remains of radioactive weapons production.

After miraculously surviving a giant flood, the 19th-century nut tree and its offspring are protected with their own tiny park.

A sculpture of a giant man escaping from the depths of the Earth.

University City's quirkiest resident lives in a park named after its first.

A chessmaster's dream destination.

This is not your typical jungle gym.

During the 19th-century, this park was a vital trading fort.

Stand at the point where the two mightiest rivers in the United States converge.

An urban forest overtakes what was the greatest failure of utopic urban housing.

A creepy sculpture of a decapitated head invites viewers to see St. Louis through its empty eyes.