Places Elizabeth l Wants to Go

A gigantic 10-foot tall stone man.

A 20-foot statue reminds viewers of an extinct species.

A place where you can symbolically rid yourself of negative thoughts and attitudes.

Mutant vegetables, transgenic mosquitos, and atomic rodents span the walls of this one-of-a-kind museum.

This "common-as-dirt" museum celebrates the glory of normalcy.

The world's largest public collection of PEZ memorabilia.

An Aztec snake god has taken the material form of an apartment complex.

Hike the ruins of a zoo that was shut down by an unsolved murder.

A small, red building located along a state highway where the 18th Vice President made shoes in his youth.

This modest plaza in Moneygall, Ireland has cashed in on its distant connection to the U.S. president.

This sycamore is Connecticut's largest tree, New England's largest sycamore, and among the largest of its kind nationwide.

A startling waterfall, not far from a roadside viewpoint.

Edison's cast-in-place concrete houses were a failure, but way ahead of their time.

A real-life replica of a home from Hayao Miyazaki's beloved movie "My Neighbor Totoro."

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

The spaceship-like theater, which is still in use, was one of the most popular exhibits at the 1964 New York World's Fair.

The site of the first "historically true" UFO encounter in the U.S.

The building that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House."

The first American home of the isolated, egalitarian religion has a trove of Shaker architecture and artifacts.

"Gnome Chomsky" was once the largest gnome in the world, but is now simply tall for his kind.

A park in a small Pennsylvania town is home to an original sculpture by one of its native sons, legendary artist and activist Keith Haring.

A wonderous place devoted to art and metal.

Homemade rockets, dinosaurs, and robots make this New York small business much more than a furniture store.

One of the earliest—and most commonly forgotten—acts of rebellion against English rule.