Places Emily Sue Wants to Go

A store full of vintage and indie toys designed to bring out the kid in even the crustiest of adults.

The show pony of cave systems, Fantastic Caverns manages to live up to its name.

One believer transformed a local curiosity into proof of Vikings on the Great Plains.

One man's homage to the orange as realized through a long-term folk art labor of love.

A small "palace" and museum made of, and devoted entirely, to salt.

At the "Garage Mahal" in Houston, car culture is about more than just driving.

Roadside attraction with more than 1,000 stuffed and mounted animal skins displayed in simulated natural habitats with hand-painted backdrops.

You have to love a museum with a truly dedicated focus. A focus on Superman, for example.

Symbolic attempt to overcome the issues of life.

Ornate limestone building now filled with geologic specimens, and more.

A turn-of-the-century architectural marvel built on healing mineral springs and salt licks.

Colorful collection of antique musical oddities.

Ruins of a Carnegie family mansion on Cumberland Island.

A museum that houses the world's largest collection of ventriloquism dummies.

Moonbows over Kentucky.

One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.

Labor provided by Great Depression-era programs restored these 25,000 acres in Tennessee.

Origin of the blue-skinned Fugates of eastern Kentucky.

A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.

Divinely-inspired village houses 6,000 dolls, plus strange and lovely outsider art.

A psychological self-portrait in the form of a giant, segmented head.

Mystery surrounds a famous marshal of Napoleon's army.

Mile-long cave system near Great Smoky Mountains.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.