Places Ell Hughes Wants to Go

This Chinese museum proves that it's a watermelon world, we're all just living in it.

A museum dedicated to a Cold War era sausage.

Behold, a collection dedicated to Germany's favorite vegetable.

Tucked away in a corner of a Maine general store there was a museum devoted to an equally beloved and reviled local soft drink.

This little gallery is devoted to one small town's passion for a very special cheese.

This Irish museum in a historic 19th century market pays tribute to the glory of butter.

A Black Forest cuckoo clock theme park features one timepiece big enough to walk inside.

The villagers of the coldest inhabited place on Earth adjust to unique challenges presented by day-to-day living.

The man who was president for only one day and spent most of it asleep.

The central mosque of this Mali town is entirely built from mud.

These homes carved into the mountains seem to defy the laws of nature.

This one-time health resort was used by aristocrats around the world.

A five-square-mile slice of Spain on the Mediterranean coast of North Africa.

Morocco's Argania trees are infested with nut-hungry goats.

This North Carolina museum is keeping the pinball craze alive, with a little Space Invaders on the side.

The "first cat," "first dog," and even a presidential pygmy hippo all get their due in this museum.

A crumbling wizard is one of the final reminders of a roadside Middle Earth.