Places Emily Sue Wants to Go

Home to the world's largest quilt collection dating from the 1600s through today.

This replica small town lets visitors take a stroll through the story of progress in the U.S. via thousands of Americana artifacts.

The largest collection of historical roller skates in the world.

Underneath downtown Lincoln resides a network of caves that was also the city's first brewery.

This erect, phallic geological spire wasn't always named so domestically.

The unique waterfall in Iceland's south features a backdrop of geometric black lava columns.

Twisted girders are all that remain of an Icelandic bridge that was wiped out by a combination of volcanic heat and glacial floods.

What was once believed to be a church floor turned out to be the artwork of geology.

Ancient burial grounds of the wealthy.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

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

A facility built in 1992 for an underground nuclear test remains in place today.

The jewel of western Mexico's archaeological legacy is this tiered circular pyramid now covered in grass.

World's largest porcine hairball sits in a collection maintained by Benedictine monks.

Bridges, terraces, and replicas of historic structures all built of rock and petrified wood by one man.

Pickles belong on pizza and this freewheeling outpost proves it.

Historical figures from New York City's Catholic community reside in Midtown.

A discreet little stairway on St. Nicholas Avenue leads to a quaint and unexpected cobblestone street of 19th century wooden rowhouses.

The oldest house in Manhattan is now a museum that remembers the home's sordid history of scandals, vice-presidents, and ghosts.

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

The walls are decorated with whimsical murals painted by the creator of the Madeline franchise.

A Texas cave network is home to some of the world's most spectacular-looking and bizarrely named mineral formations.

The remains of the great moral philosopher reside in a university in London.

London's largest outsider art museum.