Places ericcuebas Wants to Go

Mining town from the late 1890s, once home to Calamity Jane.

Stand at the point where the two mightiest rivers in the United States converge.

What was once a presidential estate is now an exotic menagerie and home to the Budweiser Clydesdales.

Speak to a companion on the other side of the room loud and clear through this architectural anomaly.

The juke joint where legendary soul artists ate, drank, and made merry.

Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

Buy a token from the liquor store and you can make this beast spew flames on command.

Spanking machines, fake goats, and more devices of humiliation are on display in this museum of fraternal initiation devices.

This lagomorph-obsessed Route 66 emporium is home to a giant jackrabbit that sits in a bunny graveyard.

Oversized statues are just the tip of this nostalgic Americana roadside attraction.

Though it's thrived abroad, this forgotten Dunkin' rival has just one store left in the States.

This life-size bronze statue remembers the tallest recorded human in his Illinois hometown.

A notorious Route 66 eatery once frequented by Al Capone.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

Hundreds of graffiti artists have decorated this flood-wall on the west bank of the Mississippi River.

This mosaic-covered bar is brimming with curated curios.

A historic house in St. Louis was plagued by a series of suicides committed by family members involved in a successful brewery.

This century-old roadside attraction is full of bizarre rock formations.

An extravagant western hotel where every floor is the "ground floor."

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

This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.

A hillbilly theme park that proved so unpopular the land wouldn't even sell on eBay after it closed.

These waterfalls can be twins or triplets, depending on how much it's rained recently.