Places greasekitten Wants to Go

Home to the world's largest refracting telescope and the birthplace of modern astrophysics.

A stone marker memorializes the spot where the King broke up a street fight with a classic karate stance.

Literally a million fascinating cartographic artifacts are held in this sprawling university collection.

Hidden away in the city of Madison, Wisconsin is a nearly forgotten home that Frank Lloyd Wright built for a childhood friend.

A forgotten Cold War relic hidden in the outskirts of a Wisconsin city.

This ancient octopus-like tree was saved from destruction thanks to shady reporting.

A perfect circle of 24 mysterious holes dates back to prehistoric times.

America's only city hall with minarets took architectural cues from Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.

Strange beasts lurking in a garden are all that remain of a quirky, short-lived theme park.

These mysterious ruins are hidden amid this sleepy coastal city.

Mariners once used this prehistoric landfill as a navigational landmark.

The only ancient owl carving found east of the Mississippi.

An author's private collection of quirky travel-trinkets and oddities has become a rotating mini-museum in the window of a local bookstore.

Hidden in the plaza next to a pizza shop is an amazing little oddities shop.

An icon among Florida's pre-Disney tourist attractions, just west of Orlando.

A hidden beach at the end of a tunnel of mangrove trees.

A circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

This kitsch eatery is chock-a-block with bric-a-brac.

A museum preserving one company’s history of preserving food.

A swamp that was the site of prehistoric water burials also managed to preserve its corpses for millennia.

Believed to be haunted, this old cemetery is beautifully adorned with Spanish moss hanging from the trees.

This railroad and oil tycoon's lavish estate now stands as a time capsule of the Gilded Age.

This lakefront cottage was crafted in the 1800s and was once a sanitorium.

This odd-shaped relic from the 1964 New York World's Fair found its way back home to Wisconsin.