Places gope40 Wants to Go

Peek into a cave of giant, glimmering crystals.

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.

Housed in a stunning Victorian building, this museum has the largest exhibition of knives, blades, penknives, and scissors in Spain.

Every year, the town of Menton, France, turns lemons and oranges into giant sculptures depicting windmills, dragons, and more.

In the heart of Tirana, this underground nuclear bunker has been transformed into a museum.

An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.

John Wayne, Ronald Reagan, and other Hollywood actors have resided in this picturesque Route 66 hotel.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

A unique geological area spiked with wind-carved rocks that resemble teepees.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

Twelve decommissioned shipping containers evoke a reclining person in Marfa, Texas.

Larger-than-life cut-out murals of James Dean and Elizabeth Taylor, dedicated to their 1956 film ‘Giant.’

This private mansion turned Catholic bishop’s home is an iconic Galveston building.

This gravity-defying rock formation is one of Big Bend’s natural wonders.

A group of college students hauled a desk up a mountain more than 40 years ago. The notebooks inside have become a makeshift time capsule.

The folks at the Devil's Rope Museum want you to get hooked on barbed wire history.

The man who wasn't there.

This sculpture of a bowler hat is complemented by a matching umbrella a few blocks away.

This constitutionally sound Muffler Man harkens back to the days these attractions were a must-see.

A little stop along the Texas highway where Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, and James Dean stayed while shooting the 1955 film "Giant."

This quirky outpost and gallery inside a former church is an unexpected trove of handcrafted art.