Places gdm584 Wants to Go

This North Carolina museum is keeping the pinball craze alive, with a little Space Invaders on the side.

The antique barns in Cameron are not painted with your grandfather's Mail Pouch Tobacco murals.

This high point in the Great Smoky Mountains is said to be home to the chief of all bears.

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

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

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

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

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

This is one really big nut.

Giant origami sculptures tucked into desert scenery beckon passers-by to explore further.

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

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

A cave's rare beauty held a cavernous secret hidden underground.

A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

Come for the gun-toting hillbilly madman, stay for the ice-cream loving basketball bears.

These towering spires and glowing walls are carefully crafted from hundreds of thousands of icicles.

Around 100 sculptures from artists all over the world decorate the hiking trails surrounding this locale.

The largest arcade museum in the world chronicles the golden age of video games which ended promptly in 1987.

A Norwegian-born sculptor created these soaring guardian angels at the entrance to Hoover Dam.

Temporary Burning Man sculpture made of two 18-wheelers.

These huge stone ovens in the desert fueled the Nevada silver boom, and may have also been a hideout for outlaws.

A giant open-air sculpture made of over 200 full-sized boats.

One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.