Places fred Wants to Go

The little-known final resting place of one of America's greatest writers.

This town is home to the world’s largest arch constructed entirely of elk antlers.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

Everyone and everything one man ever loved and lost, now stare into the East for all eternity.

Oldest existing wire suspension bridge in the United States.

A retired tobacco farmer's pet project turned into a sturdy miniature city.

Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

The summer home of the largest colony of bats in the world.

A recreated Stonehenge stands in a country field, complete with Easter Island moai heads standing as sentries.

A collection of massive stacked rocks in Texas includes a snarky note on the benefits of modern technology.

An abandoned movie set in the desert of West Texas.

Ghost town with a beer-drinking goat for mayor.

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

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

This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.

The largest land animal skull ever discovered.

Giant papier mache hog sits on private property.

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

The home used in just a few seconds of film that came to define the setting of a hit sitcom.

Patrick Dougherty's fantastic living tree sculptures, mind-blowing but temporary.

Like Stonehenge, but with boats and oodles more charm.

The hometown of Popeye's creator is littered with a growing collection of granite cartoon characters.

Quirky water tower advertises the long-gone Brooks Tomato Products Co.

A late sculptor's last project was to turn this abandoned cement factory into a castle-themed amusement park.