Places Emily Sue Wants to Go

This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.

One of the world's most definitive collections of musical instruments, spanning all cultures and historical periods.

A ghost town now swarming with dozens of prairie dogs.

The state's only comprehensive museum dedicated to the mineral that defined its history and economy.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

Once the product of an inexplicable gold strike, this ghost town is now home to one man and his love of classic machines.

This historic tower in the California desert promises visitors a "vortex of good vibes".

An empty mine that some believe will suddenly be filled with fortune and treasures at the end of the world.

Las Vegas's very own 40-foot-tall fire-spewing praying mantis.

The so-called "Father of Las Vegas" had the city's first telephone installed in his office in 1907.

Decades' worth of lost and forgotten objects make up the collection of this tantalizingly odd little museum.

These ruins of a Phoenician sanctuary in Sicily have a dark history.

This amazingly preserved Doric temple was abandoned before it was ever completed.

A madman's personal garden filled with 1,000 sculpted heads.

This megalithic tomb was crafted by a mysterious civilization that settled the island of Pantelleria.

This ancient walled garden turns fog into food.

A sprawling museum located on the former site of the Orphan Girl Mine.

High in the Rockies the third largest statue in the U.S. opens her welcoming arms, and lights up the night sky.

The oldest continuously-operating Chinese restaurant in the United States has been in business since 1911.

Does being buried standing up help you get into heaven faster?

The largest spring in Northwest Arkansas is also home to a sprawling botanical gardens and a historically significant bluff.

This restaurant serves wood-fired fare served in a natural cave with a live spring.

Where one of America's greatest songwriters lived before he was Bob Dylan.

Some believe this abandoned Brutalist masterpiece inspired George Lucas's Sandcrawler.