Places Emily Sue Wants to Go

Inside this wonderland of weird, visitors are treated to a collection ranging from skeletons to haunted artifacts.

A gregarious Ohio resident has been building his whimsical temple to peace for decades.

An art deco ice cream shop covered in vintage tiles.

Take a drunken tour inside the world's largest known geode.

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

Georges Seurat’s pointillist masterpiece has been recreated in Ohio in topiary form.

The largest earthwork effigy in the world.

The mummified heart of a saint lives on in this church—after a brief hiatus when it was stolen.

Two James Beard Award-winning chefs are putting their own spin on Filipino favorites in a food market stall.

Artist James Turrell's ode to dawn and dusk on the campus of Rice University.

The peaceful space is adorned by paintings by the famed abstract artist Mark Rothko.

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

One man’s religious convictions led him to build this stone castle meant to withstand an apocalypse.

A luxurious doomsday bunker hidden beneath an unassuming Las Vegas home offers the best of subterranean suburbia.

The body of one of the world's most famous outlaws is covered in cement and iron to prevent it from being stolen.

This shop is named for a runaway elephant who smashed through its doors, stole some peanuts, and spent five days on the lam.

A museum and gift shop in a small Illinois town commemorates the work of E.C. Segar and the local figures on whom he based his characters.

This open air cathedral invites all faiths to worship under the only roof big enough to fit them all: the sky.

The building is topped by a Statue of Liberty statue whose torch has stayed burning since the museum opened.

Covered in tens of thousands of coats of paint, this Indiana attraction holds a world record all its own.

Artifacts from the golden days of the circus reside in a small Indiana town.

Nature and art meet in this curvy creation

This whimsical park encourages its visitors and wildlife to roam on and around the various works of art.

Once adorning a New York skyscraper, these reclaimed ruins now haunt an Indiana park.