Places Emily Sue Wants to Go

Millions of dollars worth of sculpture decorate this Iowa city center.

An eclectic assortment of medieval architecture in a small Iowa town.

This seemingly charming home memorializes and honors the victims of a century-old unsolved murder.

The world's largest collection of fine-scale miniatures and one the nation's largest collections of antique toys.

Step back in time at this 1950s display home, built to showcase once cutting-edge electric amenities.

It's big, it's a ball, and it's made of twine—the world's largest of its kind.

A landscape of massive spherical boulders are the main attraction in this Kansas State Park.

A wonderful collection of all things Oz is nestled in the heart of Kansas.

A Kansas grassroots sculptor decorates the local roadways with his sculptures made from found objects.

The site of an ancient Mississippian settlement that appears to have flourished during the 10th to 13th centuries.

This lakefront cottage was crafted in the 1800s and was once a sanitorium.

Sip whey-based vodka at the first Native-owned distillery opened on a reservation in centuries.

A museum devoted to the victims and the survivors of the most catastrophic fire in American history.

One of the last surviving C-97s sits in a field in front of a Wisconsin inn.

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

American revolutionaries and British soldiers alike are buried here in the fourth-ever cemetery in Boston.

A more than 260-year-old crypt built on Boston's oldest English burial ground.

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

The tomb of Increase Mather and his son Cotton, influential colonial ministers obsessed with the occult.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

For this chef, an active volcano is his oven.