Places Gillian Wants to Go

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

An art deco ice cream shop covered in vintage tiles.

A failed utopian experiment for British expats in the American South is now a Victorian village frozen in time.

Origin of the blue-skinned Fugates of eastern Kentucky.

This small museum is kept in a house that was integral to the genesis of Uncle Tom's Cabin.

A pharmacy built in the shape of a mortar and pestle, now resembles a fancy cocktail.

Outstanding collection of 19th century medical instruments includes a life-size figure cast from as many as 200 cadavers.

Only museum dedicated to women pilots, with personal artifacts from Amelia Earhart and other aviatrixes.

An acoustic anomaly with a mysterious cause sits in the heart of Tulsa.

A museum celebrating the Victorian obsession with hair art.

This giant green head remembers one of America's jazz giants.

The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.

The house where the famed outlaw was shot by a dirty coward is now a museum to the criminal's legacy.

An idle pastime becomes a record holder in Boys Town, Nebraska.

These elevated trucks were put in place as a middle finger to The Man, but are now considered folk art.

This replica small town lets visitors take a stroll through the story of progress in the U.S. via thousands of Americana artifacts.

A wonderful collection of all things Oz is nestled in the heart of Kansas.

A cannon designed to fire an atomic warhead.

Small plaque marks the spot, but the true center is located about half a mile away on a private pig farm.

A museum documents the development of the invention that tamed the Wild West.

Marking the spot where a conquistador gave up his search for the fabled Seven Cities of Gold.

It's big, it's a ball, and it's made of twine—the world's largest of its kind.

A 20-foot-tall egg painted in a traditional Czech patterns by the Czech community in Wilson, Kansas.

Home to a protest movement, a bombing, and a dramatic change in labor history.