Places EMcCutchan Wants to Go

Is this 47.7-mile stretch of highway the longest straight road in the United States?

A park where you can watch the highway zoom past.

A Prohibition-era casino once hidden as a palatial tea room.

Its collection is a sweet reminder of the shuttered factory.

The future of roadside attractions is this sci-fi soda mecca that is home to a 66-foot tall neon pop bottle.

It specializes in outsider art and artifacts of secret societies.

JFK's assassin rented a room in the boarding house in the weeks leading up to the 1963 shooting.

A beautiful bronze sculpture by Danish designer Bjorn Wiinblad, who is indelibly tied to Dallas.

A master plumber has turned his love of art and toilets into a folk museum that's not taking the piss.

This family cemetery is a reminder of a smallpox outbreak in late-19th-century Texas.

The final resting place of a music legend.

Fans are known to leave tributes to these two brothers, both heavy-metal legends.

This library is a reader's paradise and a plant lover's dream.

A one-of-a-kind blind-accessible, interactive mural.

A former post office turned venue, food hall, and retail center.

A registered historic landmark shrouded in unsettling local legends.

This sculpture of a bowler hat is complemented by a matching umbrella a few blocks away.

Hidden within a spa in a Texas strip mall is a restaurant specializing in Eastern European foods.

A tribute to a future time when gravity is conquered.

The strip club's VIP lounge is actually a rare repurposed Futuro House.

This Florida museum dedicated to western artwork is entered through an artificial canyon with imported sandstone.

This Florida resort community is where the Amish come to have fun in the sun.

A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.

A 19th-century Gothic, castle-like statehouse by the Mississippi River.