Places eternalmd31 Wants to Go

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.

Enormous terracotta heads of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip can be seen on the side of the road to Windsor.

This ambitious attraction was the brain child of a lake resort impresario, and built by the WPA.

A hardware store Buddha statue installed to deter vandalism wound up attracting Vietnamese immigrants who came to pray.

A wealth of local folk art, antiques, and curios, without ever leaving your car.

The Pennsylvania landscape depicted by a quarter mile of mosaics made from used road signs.

The outcropping is graffitied with the name of the beloved musical Muppet television series.

There's nothing shrimpy about the world's largest artificial prawn.

Chevron maintains one “Standard” brand station per state so it doesn’t lose the trademark.

A detached cement mixer has been transformed to resemble a relic from some obscure NASA mission to Oklahoma.

Enigmatic bug-like sculptures mystify drivers along a Swedish highway.

Maryland's first (and last standing) toll house on America's first federal road established the state as the "Gateway to the West."

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

A statue in the Texas town that proudly calls itself the killer bee capital of the world.

This colorful creation wasn't always a welcome part of Toronto's Moccasin Trail Park.

A relic from one of London's worst 19th-century slums.

This historic motel standing at the "crossroads of America" offers a radio in every room and was saved by local protesters.

There's something big lurking beneath the surface of this tiny Oregon park.

A private Las Vegas horse ranch adorned with whimsical artwork.

An abandoned Depression-era zoo hidden just off the highway.

The cluster of boulders near Fort Irwin is covered in military insignia.

A faded sign from the 1920s remembers Baltimore's resistance toward banning alcohol.

A building shaped like the Army Corps of Engineers logo, because why not?

The winding route passes through an enclosed alleyway, two tunnels, and leads to the White House basement.